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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, The Shadow and the Act, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a child what is Wright unable to distinguish between?
(a) When to be quiet and when to speak.
(b) Day and night.
(c) His fair-skinned grandmother and the white women of the town.
(d) Right and Wrong.

2. In "Blues People" how are the blues categorized?
(a) Poetic or Sociological.
(b) Good or bad.
(c) Negro or White.
(d) Country or classic.

3. What is the basic spiritual outlook of the American Negro?
(a) Pentecostal.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Cosmological.
(d) Ontological.

4. Where and when is the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" published?
(a) Partisan Review, Spring 1958.
(b) Life Magazine, Summer, 1958.
(c) New Yorker Magazine, Summer, 1959.
(d) Yale Literary Review, Winter, 1960.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occasion of Ellison's speech "Brave Words on a Startling Occasion?"

2. What is the first book Ellison ever reviews in a publication?

3. Who are the two primary managers of Minton's?

4. What does Ellison believe Negro folklore does?

5. Who is Charlie Christian?

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