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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 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where and when is the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" published?
(a) Yale Literary Review, Winter, 1960.
(b) Life Magazine, Summer, 1958.
(c) New Yorker Magazine, Summer, 1959.
(d) Partisan Review, Spring 1958.

2. What is it that widens Ellison's world in a dramatic way?
(a) Traveling abroad.
(b) Athletics.
(c) Reading.
(d) Living with a white family.

3. Violence is inflicted upon Wright by family, friends, and society as a whole. What is his response?
(a) Seclusion.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Violence.

4. What Bible myth is referred to in "The World and the Jug?"
(a) Garden of Eden.
(b) Noah, Ham, Shem and Japheth.
(c) Baby Moses and the Pharaoh's daughter.
(d) Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

5. What is the origin of the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke?"
(a) Treatise on the folk art of tying knots.
(b) "Invisible Man."
(c) Letter written by Ellison when he was living in Rome to an old friend.
(d) Short story about lynching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Stephen Crane?

2. In the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" what does Ellison say black face allows white America to do?

3. What does Ellison suggest as a subtitle for "Primer for White Folks?"

4. For Ellison a primary difference between Twain and Hemingway is what?

5. How does Ellison start writing?

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