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

2. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?
(a) Father of Ellison's grade school nemesis, Horatio Davis.
(b) Author of "Radios and Communication, a guide."
(c) Editor of the first magazine which published Ellison.
(d) Little white boy known as Hoolie befriended by the young Ellison.

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

4. Why do Crane and his wife move to England?
(a) He was wanted for several crimes.
(b) It was more civilized.
(c) It was more exotic to Crane than New York.
(d) To escape rumors that she was an ex-madam.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crane die of and where?

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

3. How old is Crane when he wrote his masterpiece "The Red Badge of Courage?"

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

5. What does Ellison say the greatest difficulty for the Negro writer is?

(see the answer key)

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