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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 Minton's Playhouse?
(a) Day Care Center.
(b) Restaurant.
(c) Historic Jazz Club.
(d) Broadway theater.

2. Where is Minton's located?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Cleveland.

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

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

5. When does Jones place the beginnings of the blues?
(a) World War II.
(b) At the Negro's conscious appearance on the American scene.
(c) During the Civil Rights movement.
(d) In ancient times throughout Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Stephen Crane when he dies?

2. Who lives on the left of Ellison?

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

4. What assumption does Ellison start with when writing about Negro persons?

5. Does Ellison have "Invisible Man" completely thought out prior to writing it?

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