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

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

3. Where is the essay "Richard Wright's Blues" published and when?
(a) The New York Times, Fall 1955.
(b) The Antioch Review, Summer 1945.
(c) The Oklahoman Messenger, Winter 1919.
(d) The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Summer 1935.

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

5. What does Ellison say the greatest difficulty for the Negro writer is?
(a) Get someone to publish him because most of the publishers were white.
(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) Capture the Negro speech idiom and put it down on paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Other white cultures have black face type entertainment, but what is different about American black face?

2. What type of jug does Ellison believe young Negro writers, such as himself, are in?

3. What is dangerous and different about Wright's attitude?

4. How does Ellison describe the writer Malraux?

5. Where might Crane have gotten information about the Civil War?

(see the answer key)

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