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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 book does Hemingway believe all modern American fiction sprang from?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Red Badge of Courage.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) Moby Dick.

2. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?
(a) Editor of the first magazine which published Ellison.
(b) Father of Ellison's grade school nemesis, Horatio Davis.
(c) Little white boy known as Hoolie befriended by the young Ellison.
(d) Author of "Radios and Communication, a guide."

3. Falkner writes exclusively of the southern experience yet Ellison believes him to be addressing what?
(a) Northern Negro experience.
(b) Effect of war upon culture.
(c) Inevitable rise and fall of every civilization.
(d) Nature of man.

4. What does Wright do at age four?
(a) Makes a speech at church.
(b) Sets the house on fire.
(c) Plays the piano.
(d) Begins to read.

5. How does Ellison describe Wright's autobiography "Black Boy?"
(a) A non-white intellectual's statement of his relationship with Western culture.
(b) Another failed attempt to pierce the great wall between races.
(c) The Negro answer to "Huckleberry Finn."
(d) An angry young man's immoderate tale of delusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Richard Wright born?

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

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

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

5. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?

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