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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 8.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Ellison start writing?
(a) Ellison fails to get into the jazz band he wants so he writes about it.
(b) His mother asks him to write the story of her life.
(c) Richard Wright asks him to review a novel for Wright's magazine.
(d) Ellison is commissioned by the New York City Opera to write a libretto.
2. What Greek myth does Ellison refer to in "Brave Words?"
(a) Theseus and Antigone.
(b) Zeus and Poseidon.
(c) The Odyssey and Proteus.
(d) The birth of Athena.
3. How does Ellison describe Wright's autobiography "Black Boy?"
(a) A non-white intellectual's statement of his relationship with Western culture.
(b) The Negro answer to "Huckleberry Finn."
(c) Another failed attempt to pierce the great wall between races.
(d) An angry young man's immoderate tale of delusion.
4. Why does Ellison chose not to emphasize the details of racial hardship in his life?
(a) It is a white audience and he fears they will be uncomfortable.
(b) To avoid boring the audience.
(c) It is a Negro audience and they already know his story.
(d) Too painful for him to speak about.
5. Who is Mrs. L.C. McFarland?
(a) Literary critic for the New York Post.
(b) Author of "Bound for Glory Someday".
(c) History teacher in Ellison's grade school.
(d) Woman who would become Ellison's second wife.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Ellison named after?
2. What does Crane die of and where?
3. What is the origin of the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke?"
4. As a child what do Ellison and his boyhood friends believe they are to do?
5. What does Huckleberry Finn recognize about the Negro character, Jim?
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