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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Mrs. Jackson's nephew William die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Drugs and alcohol.
(c) Hit by enemy fire during a battle in France.
(d) Submarine torpedoes sank the ship he was working on.

4. What is the "Act" Ellison refers to in the title of both the essay and the book?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Violence.
(d) Reality.

5. What does Jones analyze "bop" as?
(a) Misguided anger towards society.
(b) Cultivated blues disguised as popular culture.
(c) Attempt to circumvent critics.
(d) Conscious gesture of separation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What church does Mahalia grow up in?

3. What is Ellison's reaction to the term "Negro culture?"

4. What street is Minton's on?

5. What is Minton's Playhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. When asked when he began "Invisible Man" what does Ellison answer?

2. What was Jackson's early life like?

3. What captures the attention of many critics about "Blues People."

4. What is the film "Intruder in the Dust" about?

5. What does Ellison tell us about the matriarch, Mrs. Jackson, in "The Way It Is."

6. Who is LeRoi Jones?

7. Who is Mahalia Jackson?

8. How does the early film "Birth of the Nation" portray Negro persons?

9. Where is "Minton's Playhouse" located?

10. What does Ellison say is the invisible man's discovery?

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