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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, The Shadow and the Act, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Stephen Crane when he dies?
(a) 50.
(b) 92.
(c) 102.
(d) 29.

2. What is the Negro child taught to see the white man as?
(a) Wise and loyal.
(b) Something to be ignored.
(c) Omniscient, omnipotent and as relentless as a Mississippi flood.
(d) A being from another planet.

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

4. Where does Ellison grow up?
(a) Dallas.
(b) New York City.
(c) Oklahoma City.
(d) New Orleans.

5. What is minstrel show black face?
(a) Dark themed short skits and plays in vaudeville.
(b) Southern music and dance.
(c) Black actors acting in minstrel shows that are comic and touching.
(d) White performers painting their faces black and acting in a pseudo-Negro nonsensical way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellison describe the writer Malraux?

2. What is Ellison's reaction to the term "Negro culture?"

3. What kind of bird does Ellison say Parker is?

4. Who is Ellison named after?

5. From what did Parker struggle to escape?

(see the answer key)

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