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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 the relationship between Ellison and Stanley Hyman?
(a) Writers who abhor each other's work.
(b) Friends and intellectual sparing partners.
(c) Professors competing over the same university job.
(d) Cousins who grew up together in Oklahoma.

2. What distresses Ellison most about the essay "Black Boys and Native Sons?"
(a) Assumes an absolute separation of the races.
(b) Criticizes his own writing.
(c) Written only for a white audience.
(d) Uses the word "Boy" in its title.

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

4. What is Ellison's original choice of career?
(a) Politician.
(b) Barber.
(c) Policeman.
(d) Musician.

5. How does Ellison describe the writer Malraux?
(a) Polar opposite.
(b) Greatest nemesis.
(c) Literary ancestor.
(d) French counterpart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Hotel is Minton's part of?

2. Jones contends "A slave cannot be a ______" (fill in word).

3. What does Ellison believe Negro folklore does?

4. What is dangerous and different about Wright's attitude?

5. As a child what do Ellison and his boyhood friends believe they are to do?

(see the answer key)

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