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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 does Huckleberry Finn recognize about the Negro character, Jim?
(a) Jim knows the landscape and can take Huck anywhere.
(b) Jim is very ill and near death.
(c) Jim is not only a slave, but a human being.
(d) Jim can make him lots of money if Huck will return him to his owner.

2. Why does Ellison choose to write "Invisible Man" in a non-naturalistic way?
(a) To bring in supernatural elements.
(b) To capture the fluidity and diversity of America.
(c) To be released from expectations.
(d) To be the first Negro writer to write science-fiction.

3. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?
(a) Editor of the first magazine which published Ellison.
(b) Little white boy known as Hoolie befriended by the young Ellison.
(c) Author of "Radios and Communication, a guide."
(d) Father of Ellison's grade school nemesis, Horatio Davis.

4. Where is Richard Wright born?
(a) On a Mississippi plantation.
(b) On a train as it traveled from Georgia to Maine.
(c) In a log cabin located in the heart of Nebraska.
(d) In the New York City Negro hospital

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mark Twain do with the character of Jim that breaks through the black face minstrel tradition?

2. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?

3. Where is the essay "Richard Wright's Blues" published and when?

4. What does Falkner understand about racial social code of the South?

5. Who is Richard Wright to Ellison?

(see the answer key)

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