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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. What work of literature seizes Ellison's young mind early on?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Waste Land.
(c) Black like me.
(d) The American Constitution.

2. What is the Negro child taught to see the white man as?
(a) Something to be ignored.
(b) Wise and loyal.
(c) Omniscient, omnipotent and as relentless as a Mississippi flood.
(d) A being from another planet.

3. Why does Ellison consider Stephen Crane a great artist?
(a) Under pressure and panic he stuck to his guns.
(b) He wrote so many books.
(c) He was the first great Negro author.
(d) He was talented in so many artistic fields.

4. Who is Stephen Crane?
(a) A English gentleman who has fast holdings of land, slaves and wealth.
(b) A novelist born just after the Civil War.
(c) Ellison's first English professor who wrote "Black like me."
(d) A 20th century novelist and author of "Here today, gone tomorrow."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ellison named after?

2. How old is Crane when he wrote his masterpiece "The Red Badge of Courage?"

3. Why does Ellison choose to analyze William Falkner?

4. Why does Ellison reject the "hard-boiled" novel style of writing?

5. Where and when is "The World and The Jug" published?

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