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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 dangerous and different about Wright's attitude?
(a) Refused to participate in school.
(b) Was loud and demanding of others.
(c) Sought individual freedom in a "pre-individual" Negro culture.
(d) Ran for public office and refused to accept defeat.

2. What does the drunk of legend who lives on the corner like to yell?
(a) Shut up.
(b) Ain't nobody here but me.
(c) It's a long way to Tipperary.
(d) I'm lost.

3. What does Ellison say good fiction is made of?
(a) What is real.
(b) Tricks of the trade.
(c) Eternal truth.
(d) Fun.

4. Why are slaves able to express themselves in art?
(a) They came from African cultures where art was highly functional.
(b) Art was seen as harmless by slave owners.
(c) They were given artistic education by slave owners.
(d) Entertainment was enforced by white culture.

5. What does Falkner understand about racial social code of the South?
(a) It will never change.
(b) Destructive to both Negro and white parts of society.
(c) Here today, gone tomorrow.
(d) It is fragile and illusionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellison say the greatest difficulty for the Negro writer is?

2. What three ways do Negroes in Wright's childhood survive?

3. Where might Crane have gotten information about the Civil War?

4. Why does Ellison choose to analyze William Falkner?

5. Which critics of "Black Boy" does Ellison want to respond to?

(see the answer key)

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