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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 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is minstrel show black face?
(a) Southern music and dance.
(b) Dark themed short skits and plays in vaudeville.
(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.

3. Why does Ellison consider Stephen Crane a great artist?
(a) He was the first great Negro author.
(b) He wrote so many books.
(c) Under pressure and panic he stuck to his guns.
(d) He was talented in so many artistic fields.

4. 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) Editor of the first magazine which published Ellison.
(d) Little white boy known as Hoolie befriended by the young Ellison.

5. What is the occasion of Ellison's speech "Brave Words on a Startling Occasion?"
(a) Induction into the American Negro Writer's Hall of Fame.
(b) Eldest son's wedding.
(c) Address to the Harvard University graduating class of 1950.
(d) Acceptance of the American National Book Award in 1953.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the editor of "The Primer for White Folks?"

3. What are Crane's parents like?

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

5. What does Crane die of and where?

(see the answer key)

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