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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) An illusion where there is only chaos.
(d) Non-existent.

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

3. What is Ellison's original career direction?
(a) Tend gardens.
(b) Design buildings.
(c) Heal the sick.
(d) Play the trumpet.

4. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Ernest Hemingway?
(a) Hemingway was not American.
(b) Hemingway grew up in Oklahoma City also.
(c) Hemingway sold more books than any other American author.
(d) Hemingway ignored the dramatic and symbolic possibilities a Negro character would present.

5. Where is Richard Wright born?
(a) In the New York City Negro hospital
(b) In a log cabin located in the heart of Nebraska.
(c) On a Mississippi plantation.
(d) On a train as it traveled from Georgia to Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellison describe his boyhood experience in Oklahoma?

2. How does Ellison start writing?

3. What is dangerous and different about Wright's attitude?

4. Other white cultures have black face type entertainment, but what is different about American black face?

5. Violence is inflicted upon Wright by family, friends, and society as a whole. What is his response?

(see the answer key)

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