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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 does Jones advise his audience to do?
(a) Protest against the Vietnam war.
(b) Approach his work, "Blues People" as a theoretical endeavor.
(c) Read his poetry outdoors.
(d) Eat plenty of vegetables.

2. In "Blues People" how are the blues categorized?
(a) Negro or White.
(b) Good or bad.
(c) Poetic or Sociological.
(d) Country or classic.

3. Why does Ellison consider Stephen Crane a great artist?
(a) He was talented in so many artistic fields.
(b) He wrote so many books.
(c) He was the first great Negro author.
(d) Under pressure and panic he stuck to his guns.

4. How does Ellison describe his boyhood experience in Oklahoma?
(a) Series of mind numbing and violent episodes.
(b) Very controlled and regimented experience.
(c) Poverty stricken existence with little enjoyment.
(d) Romantic aspirations in the spirit of frontier adventurousness.

5. What does Ellison say slaves had in place of freedom?
(a) Blues, spirituals, jazz.
(b) Early death, disease, drunkenness.
(c) Dementia, mental illness, emptiness.
(d) Suffering, despair, darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ellison begin the speech by referring to Ernest Hemingway?

2. What does Crane die of and where?

3. What does Ellison believe is the true "Negro experience?"

4. What does Wright do at age four?

5. What does Falkner understand about racial social code of the South?

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