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

2. What musician does Ellison see as the true "trickster" archetype?
(a) Charlie Parker.
(b) Jack Benny.
(c) Mahalia Jackson.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

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

4. How does Ellison describe his boyhood experience in Oklahoma?
(a) Series of mind numbing and violent episodes.
(b) Romantic aspirations in the spirit of frontier adventurousness.
(c) Poverty stricken existence with little enjoyment.
(d) Very controlled and regimented experience.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hemingway carries on Twain's technical discoveries in writing but loses what?

2. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?

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

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

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

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