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

2. What does Huckleberry Finn recognize about the Negro character, Jim?
(a) Jim can make him lots of money if Huck will return him to his owner.
(b) Jim is very ill and near death.
(c) Jim knows the landscape and can take Huck anywhere.
(d) Jim is not only a slave, but a human being.

3. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?
(a) There is no Negro neighborhood in Oklahoma City.
(b) Ellison's father made a great deal of money in the railroad business.
(c) Ellison's family has always been well to do and had nice houses.
(d) His mother, a single parent, is a custodian in an apartment building there.

4. What is minstrel show black face?
(a) Black actors acting in minstrel shows that are comic and touching.
(b) White performers painting their faces black and acting in a pseudo-Negro nonsensical way.
(c) Southern music and dance.
(d) Dark themed short skits and plays in vaudeville.

5. What is Ellison's original career direction?
(a) Tend gardens.
(b) Design buildings.
(c) Play the trumpet.
(d) Heal the sick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?

2. What is the origin of the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke?"

3. As a child what do Ellison and his boyhood friends believe they are to do?

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

5. How does Ellison describe his boyhood experience in Oklahoma?

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