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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. Where is the essay "Stephen Crane and the Mainstream of American Fiction" published?
(a) In the Harvard Review of Literature, 1950.
(b) As an introduction to "The Red Badge of Courage" 1960 printing.
(c) It was never published.
(d) In the Atlantic Monthly.

2. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Ernest Hemingway?
(a) Hemingway sold more books than any other American author.
(b) Hemingway grew up in Oklahoma City also.
(c) Hemingway was not American.
(d) Hemingway ignored the dramatic and symbolic possibilities a Negro character would present.

3. 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 knows the landscape and can take Huck anywhere.
(c) Jim is not only a slave, but a human being.
(d) Jim is very ill and near death.

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

5. What does Falkner understand about racial social code of the South?
(a) Here today, gone tomorrow.
(b) Destructive to both Negro and white parts of society.
(c) It will never change.
(d) It is fragile and illusionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?

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

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

4. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?

5. Other white cultures have black face type entertainment, but what is different about American black face?

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