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

2. What does Charlie Christian play when he was a young child?
(a) Tin fiddle.
(b) Plastic trumpet.
(c) Cigar box banjo.
(d) Oil drum.

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

4. From what did Parker struggle to escape?
(a) Illiteracy.
(b) Color-blindness.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Role of entertainer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Charlie Christian come from?

2. Who interviews Ellison in "The Art of Fiction?"

3. Who lives on the left of Ellison?

4. Who co-founds modern jazz with Parker?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Jackson's early life like?

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

3. What does Ellison say about a Negro President?

4. Who is Mahalia Jackson?

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

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

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

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

9. In the Paris Review (Spring 1955) Ellison was interviewed about his work as a writer. What does he say his first piece of professional writing was?

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

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