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

2. What assumption does Ellison start with when writing about Negro persons?
(a) They are his responsibility to explain.
(b) Men with black skins are unquestionably human.
(c) Only he, as a Negro writer, can find truth and beauty in their lives.
(d) His task as a writer is to save them from the white world.

3. What does the phrase "beating that boy" mean?
(a) The insidious method of beating the life out of a Negro man by calling him "boy".
(b) The actions of white policemen upon finding Negros in the wrong part of town.
(c) A quick victory in chess.
(d) Polite conversation between white and Negro persons about the "Negro problem".

4. What does Falkner understand about racial social code of the South?
(a) Here today, gone tomorrow.
(b) Destructive to both Negro and white parts of society.
(c) It is fragile and illusionary.
(d) It will never change.

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