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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 are Crane's parents like?
(a) Libertine alcoholics.
(b) Fundamentalist Christians.
(c) French born intellectuals.
(d) Marxist sympathizers.

2. What does Ellison say the greatest difficulty for the Negro writer is?
(a) Capture the Negro speech idiom and put it down on paper.
(b) Find a subject worthy of his time and effort.
(c) Reveal what he truly feels rather than serving up what Negroes are supposed to feel.
(d) Get someone to publish him because most of the publishers were white.

3. Why does Ellison consider Stephen Crane a great artist?
(a) He was the first great Negro author.
(b) Under pressure and panic he stuck to his guns.
(c) He wrote so many books.
(d) He was talented in so many artistic fields.

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

5. How old is Stephen Crane when he dies?
(a) 50.
(b) 29.
(c) 92.
(d) 102.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?

2. Who is Stephen Crane?

3. How many children are in Stephen Crane's birth family?

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

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

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