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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, The Shadow and the Act, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distresses Ellison most about the essay "Black Boys and Native Sons?"
(a) Uses the word "Boy" in its title.
(b) Criticizes his own writing.
(c) Assumes an absolute separation of the races.
(d) Written only for a white audience.

2. What does Jones analyze "bop" as?
(a) Conscious gesture of separation.
(b) Misguided anger towards society.
(c) Cultivated blues disguised as popular culture.
(d) Attempt to circumvent critics.

3. As a child what do Ellison and his boyhood friends believe they are to do?
(a) Negros could never equal the lives of white Americans.
(b) Be whoever they would and could be.
(c) Negros had no chance of doing anything interesting in life.
(d) They were doomed to hard manual labor and suffering.

4. In "The Art of Fiction: An Interview" what does Ellison say at the very beginning?
(a) I don't have much time so hurry up.
(b) "Invisible Man" is not an autobiography.
(c) All questions must be submitted on paper first.
(d) Did you hear the one about the three guys who go into a bar?

5. Who lives above Ellison?
(a) Tap dancer.
(b) Exercise club.
(c) Diligent classical singer.
(d) Judo training facility.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children are in Stephen Crane's birth family?

2. Which American writers is the piece "Black Boys and Native Sons" about?

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

4. What kind of radio does Ellison have?

5. What writers does Ellison wish had been included in the "Primer for White Folks"?

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