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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 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ellison what does the term "the grays" mean?
(a) American melting pot.
(b) Negro term for nightfall.
(c) Negro term for white people.
(d) Slang word for feeling bored.

2. How many children are in Stephen Crane's birth family?
(a) 2.
(b) 14.
(c) 1.
(d) 20.

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

4. Where and when is the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" published?
(a) Life Magazine, Summer, 1958.
(b) Partisan Review, Spring 1958.
(c) New Yorker Magazine, Summer, 1959.
(d) Yale Literary Review, Winter, 1960.

5. Where might Crane have gotten information about the Civil War?
(a) His brother.
(b) Manuscripts and letters.
(c) His own experience.
(d) Intensive scholarly research.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Ellison choose to analyze William Falkner?

3. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Mark Twain?

4. Why do Crane and his wife move to England?

5. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?

(see the answer key)

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