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

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

3. What song moves Jackson into the public eye?
(a) Der Lieberstein.
(b) Wings of a Dove.
(c) Amazing Grace.
(d) Move On Up a Little Higher.

4. In "Blues People" how are the blues categorized?
(a) Good or bad.
(b) Poetic or Sociological.
(c) Negro or White.
(d) Country or classic.

5. What does Jones advise his audience to do?
(a) Protest against the Vietnam war.
(b) Read his poetry outdoors.
(c) Eat plenty of vegetables.
(d) Approach his work, "Blues People" as a theoretical endeavor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What institutions does Minton's evolve out of?

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

3. Who is LeRoi Jones?

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

5. What street is Minton's on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ellison believe Jackson's greatest gift is?

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

3. What was Jackson's early life like?

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

5. What type of food is served at Minton's?

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

7. Who does the song "They picked poor robin clean" remind Ellison of?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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