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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, The Seer and the Seen, Section 5.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. For Ellison a primary difference between Twain and Hemingway is what?
(a) Hemingway writes about his own personal myth and Twain writes about the national myth.
(b) Twain was trained in writing and Hemingway was not.
(c) Twain was an abolitionist and Hemingway was a prohibitionists.
(d) Twain was creative and Hemingway factual.
2. Falkner writes exclusively of the southern experience yet Ellison believes him to be addressing what?
(a) Northern Negro experience.
(b) Inevitable rise and fall of every civilization.
(c) Effect of war upon culture.
(d) Nature of man.
3. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?
(a) Little white boy known as Hoolie befriended by the young Ellison.
(b) Editor of the first magazine which published Ellison.
(c) Father of Ellison's grade school nemesis, Horatio Davis.
(d) Author of "Radios and Communication, a guide."
4. Who is Stephen Crane?
(a) A 20th century novelist and author of "Here today, gone tomorrow."
(b) Ellison's first English professor who wrote "Black like me."
(c) A novelist born just after the Civil War.
(d) A English gentleman who has fast holdings of land, slaves and wealth.
5. How does Ellison start writing?
(a) Ellison is commissioned by the New York City Opera to write a libretto.
(b) Richard Wright asks him to review a novel for Wright's magazine.
(c) His mother asks him to write the story of her life.
(d) Ellison fails to get into the jazz band he wants so he writes about it.
Short Answer Questions
1. Ellison says Hemingway sought technical perfection rather than what?
2. Hemingway carries on Twain's technical discoveries in writing but loses what?
3. Where is Richard Wright born?
4. Why does Ellison choose to analyze William Falkner?
5. According to Ellison what does the term "the grays" mean?
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