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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. What is it that widens Ellison's world in a dramatic way?
(a) Athletics.
(b) Traveling abroad.
(c) Living with a white family.
(d) Reading.

2. How does Ellison start writing?
(a) Ellison fails to get into the jazz band he wants so he writes about it.
(b) His mother asks him to write the story of her life.
(c) Richard Wright asks him to review a novel for Wright's magazine.
(d) Ellison is commissioned by the New York City Opera to write a libretto.

3. What song moves Jackson into the public eye?
(a) Move On Up a Little Higher.
(b) Wings of a Dove.
(c) Der Lieberstein.
(d) Amazing Grace.

4. Why does Oklahoma hold some freedom and equality for Negroes at the time Ellison lived there?
(a) Oklahoma is founded on Mormon principles which forbade prejudice.
(b) There are almost no Negroes in Oklahoma.
(c) It is fully integrated and equality was legislated.
(d) It has no tradition of slavery.

5. What is Ellison's original career direction?
(a) Heal the sick.
(b) Tend gardens.
(c) Design buildings.
(d) Play the trumpet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "Hidden Name" referred to in the title of Ellison's speech?

2. That Ellison's first novel might win a prestigious award makes him think what?

3. What is Charlie Parker's nickname?

4. What is Minton's Playhouse?

5. What do the blues capture?

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