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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. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Mark Twain?
(a) Twain was a humorist.
(b) Twain was married to a Negro woman.
(c) Twain offers a unique historical perspective.
(d) Twain was a slave owner and trader.

2. What magazine does Ellison write music reviews for?
(a) Negro Nightlife.
(b) Saturday Review.
(c) Music Town Tonight.
(d) New Yorker.

3. What type of literature does Ellison believe Wright's novel "Black Boy" is?
(a) Sociological case history.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Weapon against prejudice and injustice.
(d) Work of fiction.

4. What is Ellison's reaction to the term "Negro culture?"
(a) Past and gone from sight.
(b) The term is so vague as to be meaningless.
(c) Highest type of culture.
(d) It is the world he longs to be in.

5. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?
(a) There is no Negro neighborhood in Oklahoma City.
(b) Ellison's father made a great deal of money in the railroad business.
(c) Ellison's family has always been well to do and had nice houses.
(d) His mother, a single parent, is a custodian in an apartment building there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellison say good fiction is made of?

2. What does Huckleberry Finn recognize about the Negro character, Jim?

3. What song moves Jackson into the public eye?

4. What is Minton's Playhouse?

5. Ellison says Hemingway sought technical perfection rather than what?

(see the answer key)

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