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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, The Shadow and the Act, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that widens Ellison's world in a dramatic way?
(a) Living with a white family.
(b) Athletics.
(c) Traveling abroad.
(d) Reading.

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

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

4. Who are the two main characters in "Intruder in the Dust?"
(a) Joe and Mal.
(b) Chick Mallison and Lucas Beauchamp.
(c) Mark Marroni and Leroy Belvadon.
(d) William Faulkner and Maria Sothington.

5. What does the drunk of legend who lives on the corner like to yell?
(a) Shut up.
(b) It's a long way to Tipperary.
(c) Ain't nobody here but me.
(d) I'm lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jones analyze "bop" as?

2. Where is Richard Wright born?

3. Who is the editor of "The Primer for White Folks?"

4. Why does Ellison reject the "hard-boiled" novel style of writing?

5. Which American writers is the piece "Black Boys and Native Sons" about?

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