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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. What is dangerous and different about Wright's attitude?
(a) Ran for public office and refused to accept defeat.
(b) Was loud and demanding of others.
(c) Sought individual freedom in a "pre-individual" Negro culture.
(d) Refused to participate in school.

2. According to Ellison what does the term "the grays" mean?
(a) Slang word for feeling bored.
(b) Negro term for nightfall.
(c) Negro term for white people.
(d) American melting pot.

3. What does Ellison say the greatest difficulty for the Negro writer is?
(a) Reveal what he truly feels rather than serving up what Negroes are supposed to feel.
(b) Get someone to publish him because most of the publishers were white.
(c) Capture the Negro speech idiom and put it down on paper.
(d) Find a subject worthy of his time and effort.

4. How many children are in Stephen Crane's birth family?
(a) 14.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 20.

5. What does Ellison believe writing is?
(a) A way to criticize others.
(b) Mindless activity.
(c) Channeling of higher beings.
(d) Ethical instrument.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ellison's original career direction?

2. What folk tradition does Ellison believe the black face figure grows out of?

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

4. How does Ellison start writing?

5. Why does Oklahoma hold some freedom and equality for Negroes at the time Ellison lived there?

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