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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 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ralph Ellison's father hope that Ralph will grow up to be?
(a) Poet.
(b) Police officer.
(c) Jazz musician.
(d) College professor.

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

3. For Ellison who is the greatest artist the south has ever produced?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Ralph Ellison.
(d) William Falkner.

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

5. As a child what do Ellison and his boyhood friends believe they are to do?
(a) Negros had no chance of doing anything interesting in life.
(b) Negros could never equal the lives of white Americans.
(c) Be whoever they would and could be.
(d) They were doomed to hard manual labor and suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellison believe writing is?

2. Where does Ellison grow up?

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

4. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Ernest Hemingway?

5. How old is Stephen Crane when he dies?

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