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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. Who is Stephen Crane?
(a) A English gentleman who has fast holdings of land, slaves and wealth.
(b) A novelist born just after the Civil War.
(c) A 20th century novelist and author of "Here today, gone tomorrow."
(d) Ellison's first English professor who wrote "Black like me."

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

3. Where does Ellison grow up?
(a) Dallas.
(b) New York City.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Oklahoma City.

4. What does Crane die of and where?
(a) The black plague of 1834, in London, England.
(b) Tuberculosis, in the far Black Forest of Germany.
(c) In a fierce battle on the plains of Alsace.
(d) Murder, on board a ship crossing the Atlantic.

5. What does Mark Twain do with the character of Jim that breaks through the black face minstrel tradition?
(a) Jim performs black face without the paint.
(b) Jim is stereotypical and boring.
(c) Jim's very serious and not at all fun.
(d) He's a complex, dignified and very human person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Hemingway believe all modern American fiction sprang from?

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

3. What are the three themes of "Shadow and Act" according to the Introduction?

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

5. How old is Stephen Crane when he dies?

(see the answer key)

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