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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) New Yorker Magazine, Summer, 1959.
(b) Life Magazine, Summer, 1958.
(c) Yale Literary Review, Winter, 1960.
(d) Partisan Review, Spring 1958.

2. Where does Ellison grow up?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Oklahoma City.
(c) Dallas.
(d) New York City.

3. What does Mark Twain do with the character of Jim that breaks through the black face minstrel tradition?
(a) Jim's very serious and not at all fun.
(b) Jim is stereotypical and boring.
(c) He's a complex, dignified and very human person.
(d) Jim performs black face without the paint.

4. Where does Ellison say civil wars are fought?
(a) "On the field of family ties."
(b) "In no man's land which cannot be grasped."
(c) "Between and betwixt fantasy and reality."
(d) "Within the individual human heart."

5. How old is Stephen Crane when he dies?
(a) 92.
(b) 102.
(c) 29.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hemingway carries on Twain's technical discoveries in writing but loses what?

2. How many children are in Stephen Crane's birth family?

3. Ellison says Hemingway sought technical perfection rather than what?

4. In the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" what does Ellison say black face allows white America to do?

5. What does Wright do at age four?

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