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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 is the Negro child taught to see the white man as?
(a) Something to be ignored.
(b) Omniscient, omnipotent and as relentless as a Mississippi flood.
(c) A being from another planet.
(d) Wise and loyal.

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

3. Jones contends "A slave cannot be a ______" (fill in word).
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Communist.
(c) Musician.
(d) Man.

4. Where does Charlie Christian come from?
(a) Topeka.
(b) Harlem.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Oklahoma City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Richard Wright to Ellison?

2. What is James Reese Europe known for?

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

4. What is Ellison's original career direction?

5. What do the blues capture?

(see the answer key)

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