Shadow and Act Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Shadow and Act Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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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 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ellison choose to analyze William Falkner?
(a) Falkner is a close personal friend of Ellison.
(b) Falkner writes about Negro life with mixed motives but also with great success.
(c) Falkner is very critical of Ellison's novel.
(d) Falkner is a great artist and could not be left out of the discussion.

2. Who is Stanley Hyman's favorite archetypal figure?
(a) Trickster.
(b) Orphaned prince.
(c) Messiah.
(d) King.

3. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?
(a) There is no Negro neighborhood in Oklahoma City.
(b) Ellison's father made a great deal of money in the railroad business.
(c) His mother, a single parent, is a custodian in an apartment building there.
(d) Ellison's family has always been well to do and had nice houses.

4. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?
(a) Author of "Radios and Communication, a guide."
(b) Editor of the first magazine which published Ellison.
(c) Little white boy known as Hoolie befriended by the young Ellison.
(d) Father of Ellison's grade school nemesis, Horatio Davis.

5. What does Ellison say the greatest difficulty for the Negro writer is?
(a) Capture the Negro speech idiom and put it down on paper.
(b) Get someone to publish him because most of the publishers were white.
(c) Find a subject worthy of his time and effort.
(d) Reveal what he truly feels rather than serving up what Negroes are supposed to feel.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Ellison a primary difference between Twain and Hemingway is what?

2. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?

3. What folk tradition does Ellison believe the black face figure grows out of?

4. What does Mark Twain do with the character of Jim that breaks through the black face minstrel tradition?

5. What does Ellison say good fiction is made of?

(see the answer key)

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