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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 the relationship between Ellison and Stanley Hyman?
(a) Friends and intellectual sparing partners.
(b) Writers who abhor each other's work.
(c) Cousins who grew up together in Oklahoma.
(d) Professors competing over the same university job.

2. What kind of bird does Ellison say Parker is?
(a) Silly Turkey.
(b) Sad Crow.
(c) Poor Robin.
(d) Haunting Vulture.

3. What does Jones analyze "bop" as?
(a) Attempt to circumvent critics.
(b) Cultivated blues disguised as popular culture.
(c) Conscious gesture of separation.
(d) Misguided anger towards society.

4. What does Ellison suggest as a subtitle for "Primer for White Folks?"
(a) Short Course on the American Negro for Those Who "Beat That Boy".
(b) Method for finding Peace and Harmony among the Races.
(c) Comprehensive Study of the Unruly Seas of Race.
(d) How-to book for Bigots and Innocents.

5. Where does Charlie Parker die?
(a) Alley behind Minton's.
(b) Mental hospital.
(c) Crossing the Atlantic.
(d) Hotel suite of a Baroness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does "Invisible Man" take so long to complete?

2. What is Jimmy Rushing's instrument?

3. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?

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

5. As a child what is Wright unable to distinguish between?

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