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

2. Who says Negro dock workers were the best singers of Irish songs?
(a) Stanley Hyman.
(b) Lafcadio Hearn.
(c) Constance Rourke.
(d) Paul Oliver.

3. Why are slaves able to express themselves in art?
(a) Art was seen as harmless by slave owners.
(b) They were given artistic education by slave owners.
(c) Entertainment was enforced by white culture.
(d) They came from African cultures where art was highly functional.

4. What does Ellison read in 1935 that moves and intrigues him?
(a) Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
(b) Voltaire's "Moliere."
(c) T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land."
(d) R. Wright's "Black Boy."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What three ways do Negroes in Wright's childhood survive?

2. Which critics of "Black Boy" does Ellison want to respond to?

3. What is the Negro child taught to see the white man as?

4. Violence is inflicted upon Wright by family, friends, and society as a whole. What is his response?

5. What is Ellison reading when he begins writing "Invisible Man?"

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