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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. Where is the Lafargue Psychiatric Clinic?
(a) Biloxi.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Lafargue.
(d) Brooklyn.

2. What race of people are allowed into Minton's?
(a) Everybody is allowed in.
(b) White people.
(c) Negro people.
(d) Negro musicians and white customers.

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

4. What magazine does Ellison write music reviews for?
(a) Negro Nightlife.
(b) Music Town Tonight.
(c) New Yorker.
(d) Saturday Review.

5. What instrument does Henry Minton play?
(a) Bassoon.
(b) Guitar.
(c) Saxophone.
(d) Piano.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what did Parker struggle to escape?

3. What does Jones advise his audience to do?

4. What is James Reese Europe known for?

5. What kind of bird does Ellison say Parker is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the two categories Jones places the blues in?

3. What does the mural above the bandstand at Minton's depict?

4. What does the "drunk of legend" who lives on the corner do?

5. What does Ellison understand the term "Negro culture" to mean?

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

7. Where is the Lefargue Psychiatric Clinic located?

8. What was Jackson's early life like?

9. Who is LeRoi Jones?

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

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