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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. What institutions does Minton's evolve out of?
(a) Asbury Baptist and League of Women Voters.
(b) NAACP and YMCA.
(c) New York Jazz Organization and Rockefeller Trust.
(d) Clef Club and Rhythm Club.

2. Is Ellison interested primarily in injustice or art?
(a) Neither.
(b) Both equally.
(c) Injustice.
(d) Art.

3. Where is the essay "Richard Wright's Blues" published and when?
(a) The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Summer 1935.
(b) The Antioch Review, Summer 1945.
(c) The Oklahoman Messenger, Winter 1919.
(d) The New York Times, Fall 1955.

4. How does Ellison describe Wright's autobiography "Black Boy?"
(a) An angry young man's immoderate tale of delusion.
(b) The Negro answer to "Huckleberry Finn."
(c) Another failed attempt to pierce the great wall between races.
(d) A non-white intellectual's statement of his relationship with Western culture.

5. What is dangerous and different about Wright's attitude?
(a) Sought individual freedom in a "pre-individual" Negro culture.
(b) Was loud and demanding of others.
(c) Ran for public office and refused to accept defeat.
(d) Refused to participate in school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What three ways do Negroes in Wright's childhood survive?

2. What distresses Ellison most about the essay "Black Boys and Native Sons?"

3. What childhood memory does Ellison draw on to deal with his artistic nemesis?

4. Violence is inflicted upon Wright by family, friends, and society as a whole. What is his response?

5. What does Ellison say slaves had in place of freedom?

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