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

2. Who is Stanley Hyman's favorite archetypal figure?
(a) Orphaned prince.
(b) King.
(c) Messiah.
(d) Trickster.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mark Twain do with the character of Jim that breaks through the black face minstrel tradition?

3. Why does Oklahoma hold some freedom and equality for Negroes at the time Ellison lived there?

4. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Mark Twain?

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

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