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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 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What falls on Ellison and his wife while they sleep?
(a) Ceiling.
(b) Box of books.
(c) Tape machine.
(d) Drum set.

3. What does Mark Twain do with the character of Jim that breaks through the black face minstrel tradition?
(a) He's a complex, dignified and very human person.
(b) Jim's very serious and not at all fun.
(c) Jim performs black face without the paint.
(d) Jim is stereotypical and boring.

4. What is the "Act" Ellison refers to in the title of both the essay and the book?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Violence.
(d) Reality.

5. What does Ellison read in 1935 that moves and intrigues him?
(a) Voltaire's "Moliere."
(b) R. Wright's "Black Boy."
(c) Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
(d) T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Falkner understand about racial social code of the South?

2. What does Ellison say the "Negro problem" actually is?

3. What book does Hemingway believe all modern American fiction sprang from?

4. How does Ellison start writing?

5. What do all American Negros share?

(see the answer key)

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