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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 is dangerous and different about Wright's attitude?
(a) Was loud and demanding of others.
(b) Sought individual freedom in a "pre-individual" Negro culture.
(c) Refused to participate in school.
(d) Ran for public office and refused to accept defeat.

2. Why does Ellison choose to analyze William Falkner?
(a) Falkner is very critical of Ellison's novel.
(b) Falkner is a close personal friend of Ellison.
(c) Falkner writes about Negro life with mixed motives but also with great success.
(d) Falkner is a great artist and could not be left out of the discussion.

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

4. Ellison says Hemingway sought technical perfection rather than what?
(a) Lyrical qualities.
(b) Fame and notoriety.
(c) Financial gain.
(d) Moral insight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Violence is inflicted upon Wright by family, friends, and society as a whole. What is his response?

2. What three ways do Negroes in Wright's childhood survive?

3. What does the phrase "to finger its jagged grain and to transcend it" refer to?

4. What does Ralph Ellison's father hope that Ralph will grow up to be?

5. What does Huckleberry Finn recognize about the Negro character, Jim?

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