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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 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Crane die of and where?
(a) The black plague of 1834, in London, England.
(b) In a fierce battle on the plains of Alsace.
(c) Murder, on board a ship crossing the Atlantic.
(d) Tuberculosis, in the far Black Forest of Germany.

3. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Mark Twain?
(a) Twain offers a unique historical perspective.
(b) Twain was a slave owner and trader.
(c) Twain was a humorist.
(d) Twain was married to a Negro woman.

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

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) Reveal what he truly feels rather than serving up what Negroes are supposed to feel.
(d) Find a subject worthy of his time and effort.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellison start writing?

2. What is Ellison's original career direction?

3. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?

4. Falkner writes exclusively of the southern experience yet Ellison believes him to be addressing what?

5. Why does Oklahoma hold some freedom and equality for Negroes at the time Ellison lived there?

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