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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Sound and the Mainstream, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Charlie Christian?
(a) Innovative drummer.
(b) Haunting blues trumpeter.
(c) Highest paid night club singer.
(d) Greatest jazz guitarist.

2. What do the three sections of "Invisible Man" represent?
(a) Purpose to passion to perception.
(b) Terror to understanding to acceptance.
(c) Ancient to modern to future.
(d) Darkness to dawn to full sun at noon.

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

4. In "The Art of Fiction: An Interview" what does Ellison say at the very beginning?
(a) I don't have much time so hurry up.
(b) Did you hear the one about the three guys who go into a bar?
(c) "Invisible Man" is not an autobiography.
(d) All questions must be submitted on paper first.

5. What kind of radio does Ellison have?
(a) Plastic transistor radio.
(b) Old Nelson AM with Riddle FM tuner.
(c) Wooden American Minder with glass tubes.
(d) Old Philco AM with Pilot FM tuner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is it that widens Ellison's world in a dramatic way?

3. What is the relationship between Ellison and Stanley Hyman?

4. What do people eat at Minton's?

5. What does the chaos of noise cause in Ellison?

(see the answer key)

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