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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 Hotel is Minton's part of?
(a) Hotel Cecil.
(b) Hotel Plaza.
(c) Hotel Barbero.
(d) Hotel LaGrand.

2. What do the blues capture?
(a) The time period in which they were written.
(b) Tragic and comic sense of the human condition.
(c) Personality of the singer.
(d) Religion of the Negro people.

3. Jones contends "A slave cannot be a ______" (fill in word).
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Communist.
(c) Musician.
(d) Man.

4. What book does Hemingway believe all modern American fiction sprang from?
(a) The Red Badge of Courage.
(b) Huckleberry Finn.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Moby Dick.

5. What does Ellison hope "An American Dilemma" does not become?
(a) Only explanation of Negro culture.
(b) College sociological textbook.
(c) Best selling book.
(d) An American tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Charlie Parker's nickname?

2. Does Ellison have "Invisible Man" completely thought out prior to writing it?

3. What is it that widens Ellison's world in a dramatic way?

4. Who painted the mural that is displayed above Minton's bandstand?

5. What are the three themes of "Shadow and Act" according to the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

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