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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. Falkner writes exclusively of the southern experience yet Ellison believes him to be addressing what?
(a) Nature of man.
(b) Effect of war upon culture.
(c) Northern Negro experience.
(d) Inevitable rise and fall of every civilization.

2. What is dangerous and different about Wright's attitude?
(a) Sought individual freedom in a "pre-individual" Negro culture.
(b) Refused to participate in school.
(c) Was loud and demanding of others.
(d) Ran for public office and refused to accept defeat.

3. Where might Crane have gotten information about the Civil War?
(a) Manuscripts and letters.
(b) Intensive scholarly research.
(c) His brother.
(d) His own experience.

4. What does Ellison say good fiction is made of?
(a) What is real.
(b) Fun.
(c) Tricks of the trade.
(d) Eternal truth.

5. Where does Ellison grow up?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Oklahoma City.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?

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

3. Hemingway carries on Twain's technical discoveries in writing but loses what?

4. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Mark Twain?

5. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?

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