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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. What does the phrase "to finger its jagged grain and to transcend it" refer to?
(a) The complexity of writing fiction.
(b) The power of the blues.
(c) To climb great mountains.
(d) To walk the razor's edge of reason.

2. What book does Hemingway believe all modern American fiction sprang from?
(a) Moby Dick.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) The Red Badge of Courage.

3. Who painted the mural that is displayed above Minton's bandstand?
(a) Anonymous W.P.A. worker.
(b) Charles Graham.
(c) Ralph Ellison.
(d) Paul Cezanne.

4. Where is the essay "Stephen Crane and the Mainstream of American Fiction" published?
(a) It was never published.
(b) In the Atlantic Monthly.
(c) In the Harvard Review of Literature, 1950.
(d) As an introduction to "The Red Badge of Courage" 1960 printing.

5. What is the first book Ellison ever reviews in a publication?
(a) Richard Wright's "Amazing Grace."
(b) E. Waters Turpin's "These Low Grounds."
(c) John Joseph's "Ain't no way out."
(d) James Baldwin's "Protest Novel."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the college Ellison attended?

2. Hemingway carries on Twain's technical discoveries in writing but loses what?

3. Where does Ellison grow up?

4. What do people eat at Minton's?

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

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