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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 does Ellison say slaves had in place of freedom?
(a) Suffering, despair, darkness.
(b) Blues, spirituals, jazz.
(c) Dementia, mental illness, emptiness.
(d) Early death, disease, drunkenness.

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

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

4. Who lives above Ellison?
(a) Exercise club.
(b) Tap dancer.
(c) Diligent classical singer.
(d) Judo training facility.

5. As a child what do Ellison and his boyhood friends believe they are to do?
(a) They were doomed to hard manual labor and suffering.
(b) Negros had no chance of doing anything interesting in life.
(c) Negros could never equal the lives of white Americans.
(d) Be whoever they would and could be.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellison describe his boyhood experience in Oklahoma?

2. How many children are in Stephen Crane's birth family?

3. What does Jones advise his audience to do?

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

5. Falkner writes exclusively of the southern experience yet Ellison believes him to be addressing what?

(see the answer key)

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