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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 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Ellison who is the greatest artist the south has ever produced?
(a) William Falkner.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

2. Ellison says Hemingway sought technical perfection rather than what?
(a) Fame and notoriety.
(b) Lyrical qualities.
(c) Moral insight.
(d) Financial gain.

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

4. Hemingway carries on Twain's technical discoveries in writing but loses what?
(a) Twain's humor and light approach to storytelling.
(b) Twain's political and social construct.
(c) Twain's focus on American subjects.
(d) Twain's understanding that technique is to be used in the service of truth.

5. What does Ellison say the greatest difficulty for the Negro writer is?
(a) Capture the Negro speech idiom and put it down on paper.
(b) Reveal what he truly feels rather than serving up what Negroes are supposed to feel.
(c) Get someone to publish him because most of the publishers were white.
(d) Find a subject worthy of his time and effort.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Mark Twain?

2. What does Huckleberry Finn recognize about the Negro character, Jim?

3. What is minstrel show black face?

4. What does Ellison believe writing is?

5. Who is Stanley Hyman's favorite archetypal figure?

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