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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 does Ellison say the "Negro problem" actually is?
(a) A guilt problem charged with pain.
(b) A white problem.
(c) Non-existent.
(d) An illusion where there is only chaos.
2. What does the phrase "beating that boy" mean?
(a) The insidious method of beating the life out of a Negro man by calling him "boy".
(b) The actions of white policemen upon finding Negros in the wrong part of town.
(c) A quick victory in chess.
(d) Polite conversation between white and Negro persons about the "Negro problem".
3. Who is the editor of "The Primer for White Folks?"
(a) Anonymous.
(b) Richard Wright.
(c) Bucklin Moon.
(d) Ralph Ellison.
4. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?
(a) The prominent Negro intellectual who wrote "Santa Claus is Black."
(b) A lyricist and comedian in the 1930's.
(c) Ellison's uncle who has a good sense of humor.
(d) A scholar who wrote on the relationship between Negro literature and folklore.
5. What folk tradition does Ellison believe the black face figure grows out of?
(a) Africa.
(b) Europe.
(c) West Indies.
(d) America.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where might Crane have gotten information about the Civil War?
2. What does Falkner understand about racial social code of the South?
3. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?
4. What does the phrase "to finger its jagged grain and to transcend it" refer to?
5. What musician does Ellison see as the true "trickster" archetype?
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