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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. Where does Charlie Christian come from?
(a) Topeka.
(b) Oklahoma City.
(c) Harlem.
(d) San Francisco.

2. What is the significance of printing Negro with a capital N?
(a) Dismissive category.
(b) There is no significance.
(c) Typographical error.
(d) Victory for Negro people's self-definition.

3. Who co-founds modern jazz with Parker?
(a) Louis Armstrong.
(b) Jimmy Rushing.
(c) Pat Brown.
(d) Dizzy Gillespie.

4. What assumption does Ellison start with when writing about Negro persons?
(a) They are his responsibility to explain.
(b) His task as a writer is to save them from the white world.
(c) Men with black skins are unquestionably human.
(d) Only he, as a Negro writer, can find truth and beauty in their lives.

5. Who is Irving Howe?
(a) White liberal writer from New York City.
(b) Hispanic Indian man who met Ellison in a bar.
(c) Negro professor from Mississippi University.
(d) Pseudonym for Richard Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Charlie Christian?

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

3. What is the "Shadow" which Hollywood produces?

4. What is the Negro child taught to see the white man as?

5. What does the hero of "Invisible Man" do that is a common theme in Negro folklore?

(see the answer key)

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