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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Sound and the Mainstream, Section 4.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Ellison say slaves had in place of freedom?
(a) Dementia, mental illness, emptiness.
(b) Suffering, despair, darkness.
(c) Blues, spirituals, jazz.
(d) Early death, disease, drunkenness.
2. Is Ellison interested primarily in injustice or art?
(a) Both equally.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Art.
(d) Neither.
3. What does Jones analyze "bop" as?
(a) Attempt to circumvent critics.
(b) Cultivated blues disguised as popular culture.
(c) Conscious gesture of separation.
(d) Misguided anger towards society.
4. Where is the book review "Blues People" published and when?
(a) Cleveland Times, 1974.
(b) New York Review, 1964.
(c) Saturday Review, 1945.
(d) Tukumpsee Reader, 1930.
5. What does Ellison read in 1935 that moves and intrigues him?
(a) R. Wright's "Black Boy."
(b) T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land."
(c) Voltaire's "Moliere."
(d) Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
Short Answer Questions
1. Why are slaves able to express themselves in art?
2. Which critics of "Black Boy" does Ellison want to respond to?
3. Who is Mrs. Lydia Maria Child?
4. What is the Negro child taught to see the white man as?
5. What does Jones advise his audience to do?
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