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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. What folk tradition does Ellison believe the black face figure grows out of?
(a) Europe.
(b) Africa.
(c) West Indies.
(d) America.

2. What is the origin of the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke?"
(a) Short story about lynching.
(b) Letter written by Ellison when he was living in Rome to an old friend.
(c) Treatise on the folk art of tying knots.
(d) "Invisible Man."

3. What does Ellison say good fiction is made of?
(a) Eternal truth.
(b) Tricks of the trade.
(c) Fun.
(d) What is real.

4. What book does Hemingway believe all modern American fiction sprang from?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Huckleberry Finn.
(c) The Red Badge of Courage.
(d) Moby Dick.

5. What musician does Ellison see as the true "trickster" archetype?
(a) Louis Armstrong.
(b) Charlie Parker.
(c) Mahalia Jackson.
(d) Jack Benny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ellison choose to analyze William Falkner?

2. In the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" what does Ellison say black face allows white America to do?

3. Where does Ellison grow up?

4. Falkner writes exclusively of the southern experience yet Ellison believes him to be addressing what?

5. What is minstrel show black face?

(see the answer key)

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