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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is James Reese Europe known for?
(a) Playing the tenor sax.
(b) Inventing the fox trot.
(c) Starting a fire at Minton's.
(d) Protesting segregation.

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

3. What do people eat at Minton's?
(a) Peanuts and beer.
(b) Hamburgers and hot dogs.
(c) Caviar, champagne and escargot.
(d) Fried chicken, hash, grits, biscuits and hot rolls.

4. Who painted the mural that is displayed above Minton's bandstand?
(a) Anonymous W.P.A. worker.
(b) Charles Graham.
(c) Ralph Ellison.
(d) Paul Cezanne.

5. What is remarkable about the psychiatric staff?
(a) Have no psychiatric training.
(b) Receive no salary.
(c) Have no experience.
(d) Not licensed by the state.

6. What is the basic spiritual outlook of the American Negro?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Cosmological.
(c) Pentecostal.
(d) Ontological.

7. What is Ellison's reaction to the term "Negro culture?"
(a) Past and gone from sight.
(b) Highest type of culture.
(c) The term is so vague as to be meaningless.
(d) It is the world he longs to be in.

8. Why does "Invisible Man" take so long to complete?
(a) No ending.
(b) The transitions the character goes through.
(c) Too many versions of the book.
(d) Not perfect enough.

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

10. What do all American Negros share?
(a) Religious and political beliefs.
(b) Educational and economic level.
(c) Genetic links to Central Africa.
(d) A hatred toward European colonization and slavery.

11. What is Jimmy Rushing's instrument?
(a) Piano.
(b) Banjo.
(c) Violin.
(d) Voice.

12. What year are the African slaves introduced into the American Colonies?
(a) 1432.
(b) 1619.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1916.

13. Does Ellison have "Invisible Man" completely thought out prior to writing it?
(a) Yes, the conceptual framework was in place.
(b) No, he just wrote as it came to him.
(c) Partly, he knew what the ending would be, but that was all.
(d) Ellison refuses to discuss his writing method.

14. In "The Art of Fiction: An Interview" what does Ellison say at the very beginning?
(a) Did you hear the one about the three guys who go into a bar?
(b) "Invisible Man" is not an autobiography.
(c) I don't have much time so hurry up.
(d) All questions must be submitted on paper first.

15. Who is Charlie Christian?
(a) Innovative drummer.
(b) Highest paid night club singer.
(c) Haunting blues trumpeter.
(d) Greatest jazz guitarist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Lafargue Psychiatric Clinic?

2. What does Ellison do to find some peace and quiet?

3. Culturally, what do American Negros represent?

4. What is the significance of printing Negro with a capital N?

5. How does Ellison define the "understanding of art?"

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