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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 specific folk art form does "Black Boy" reflect?
(a) African ethnic mask making.
(b) The blues.
(c) Folk sculpture.
(d) Modern dance.

2. What does the chaos of noise cause in Ellison?
(a) Peace and Joy.
(b) Mental Illness.
(c) Writer's block.
(d) Hearing loss.

3. Where does Ellison say civil wars are fought?
(a) "Between and betwixt fantasy and reality."
(b) "On the field of family ties."
(c) "In no man's land which cannot be grasped."
(d) "Within the individual human heart."

4. What does Ellison suggest as a subtitle for "Primer for White Folks?"
(a) Short Course on the American Negro for Those Who "Beat That Boy".
(b) How-to book for Bigots and Innocents.
(c) Comprehensive Study of the Unruly Seas of Race.
(d) Method for finding Peace and Harmony among the Races.

5. As a child what do Ellison and his boyhood friends believe they are to do?
(a) Negros had no chance of doing anything interesting in life.
(b) They were doomed to hard manual labor and suffering.
(c) Be whoever they would and could be.
(d) Negros could never equal the lives of white Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ellison living in the essay "Living with Music?"

2. For Ellison who is the greatest artist the south has ever produced?

3. Where is Richard Wright born?

4. What does the phrase "beating that boy" mean?

5. What is Ellison's original choice of career?

(see the answer key)

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