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

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

3. What is Charlie Parker's nickname?
(a) Bird.
(b) Horn.
(c) C.P.
(d) Noodle.

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

5. What do the three sections of "Invisible Man" represent?
(a) Ancient to modern to future.
(b) Darkness to dawn to full sun at noon.
(c) Purpose to passion to perception.
(d) Terror to understanding to acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fee for clients at the Lafargue Psychiatric Clinic?

2. What is the first book Ellison ever reviews in a publication?

3. What is the final grade Jackson finished in school?

4. What two types of music is Ellison torn between as a child?

5. Where is Ellison living in the essay "Living with Music?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mahalia Jackson?

2. What place does "Living with Music" describe?

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

4. What was Jackson's early life like?

5. What experience in Ellison's childhood gives him patience with his upstairs singing neighbor?

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

7. What does Ellison believe is the primary American theme in both life and literature?

8. What type of music does the upstairs singer practice all day?

9. Why does Ellison disagree with Jones when he says "A slave cannot be a man"?

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

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