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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, The Seer and the Seen, Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where and when is the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" published?
(a) Yale Literary Review, Winter, 1960.
(b) Life Magazine, Summer, 1958.
(c) Partisan Review, Spring 1958.
(d) New Yorker Magazine, Summer, 1959.

2. Where is Richard Wright born?
(a) On a Mississippi plantation.
(b) In the New York City Negro hospital
(c) On a train as it traveled from Georgia to Maine.
(d) In a log cabin located in the heart of Nebraska.

3. Who is Stephen Crane?
(a) A English gentleman who has fast holdings of land, slaves and wealth.
(b) A novelist born just after the Civil War.
(c) Ellison's first English professor who wrote "Black like me."
(d) A 20th century novelist and author of "Here today, gone tomorrow."

4. What musician does Ellison see as the true "trickster" archetype?
(a) Charlie Parker.
(b) Mahalia Jackson.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Jack Benny.

5. Why does Oklahoma hold some freedom and equality for Negroes at the time Ellison lived there?
(a) It is fully integrated and equality was legislated.
(b) There are almost no Negroes in Oklahoma.
(c) It has no tradition of slavery.
(d) Oklahoma is founded on Mormon principles which forbade prejudice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the essay "Stephen Crane and the Mainstream of American Fiction" published?

2. Where does Ellison grow up?

3. What does Huckleberry Finn recognize about the Negro character, Jim?

4. What is the origin of the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke?"

5. What does the phrase "to finger its jagged grain and to transcend it" refer to?

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