View a FREE sample

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. Hemingway carries on Twain's technical discoveries in writing but loses what?
(a) Twain's understanding that technique is to be used in the service of truth.
(b) Twain's political and social construct.
(c) Twain's humor and light approach to storytelling.
(d) Twain's focus on American subjects.

2. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?
(a) Ellison's uncle who has a good sense of humor.
(b) A lyricist and comedian in the 1930's.
(c) The prominent Negro intellectual who wrote "Santa Claus is Black."
(d) A scholar who wrote on the relationship between Negro literature and folklore.

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

4. Where is the essay "Stephen Crane and the Mainstream of American Fiction" published?
(a) In the Harvard Review of Literature, 1950.
(b) In the Atlantic Monthly.
(c) It was never published.
(d) As an introduction to "The Red Badge of Courage" 1960 printing.

5. Where does Ellison say civil wars are fought?
(a) "In no man's land which cannot be grasped."
(b) "Within the individual human heart."
(c) "Between and betwixt fantasy and reality."
(d) "On the field of family ties."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Ernest Hemingway?

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

3. What is the relationship between Ellison and Stanley Hyman?

4. For Ellison who is the greatest artist the south has ever produced?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 388 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample