2. What type of jug does Ellison say Howe imagines Negro people to be in?
(a) Jug of beer in which they are drowning.
(b) Steel jug waiting for a black messiah to come and blow off the cork.
(c) Empty jug with no way out.
(d) Heavy jug that takes two men to lift it.

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

4. Why does Ellison reject the "hard-boiled" novel style of writing?
(a) Focused on detectives and criminals.
(b) Primarily a white form of writing.
(c) Too boring for what he wants to say.
(d) Full of physical violence, social cynicism and understatement.

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

6. What does Ellison believe is the true "Negro experience?"
(a) A life of unremitting suffering and pain.
(b) A codified, suffocating existence which cannot be understood by others.
(c) The opposite of the "white experience."
(d) There isn't one. Negro persons live diverse and varied lives.

7. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Mark Twain?
(a) Twain was a slave owner and trader.
(b) Twain offers a unique historical perspective.
(c) Twain was a humorist.
(d) Twain was married to a Negro woman.

8. What are the three themes of "Shadow and Act" according to the Introduction?
(a) Classical Dance, Country Music and Folk Art.
(b) White people, Black people, and Native Americans.
(c) Racism, Poverty and Obstruction of Justice.
(d) Literature, Jazz/Blues and the relationship between Negro America and American culture.

9. What does Falkner understand about racial social code of the South?
(a) It will never change.
(b) Here today, gone tomorrow.
(c) Destructive to both Negro and white parts of society.
(d) It is fragile and illusionary.

10. What Bible myth is referred to in "The World and the Jug?"
(a) Garden of Eden.
(b) Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
(c) Noah, Ham, Shem and Japheth.
(d) Baby Moses and the Pharaoh's daughter.

11. What are Crane's parents like?
(a) Marxist sympathizers.
(b) French born intellectuals.
(c) Fundamentalist Christians.
(d) Libertine alcoholics.

12. What type of literature does Ellison believe Wright's novel "Black Boy" is?
(a) Sociological case history.
(b) Work of fiction.
(c) Autobiography.
(d) Weapon against prejudice and injustice.

13. Where and when is the essay "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" published?
(a) Life Magazine, Summer, 1958.
(b) Yale Literary Review, Winter, 1960.
(c) Partisan Review, Spring 1958.
(d) New Yorker Magazine, Summer, 1959.

14. Where is the essay "Richard Wright's Blues" published and when?
(a) The Antioch Review, Summer 1945.
(b) The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Summer 1935.
(c) The New York Times, Fall 1955.
(d) The Oklahoman Messenger, Winter 1919.

15. Why does Ellison chose not to emphasize the details of racial hardship in his life?
(a) To avoid boring the audience.
(b) It is a white audience and he fears they will be uncomfortable.
(c) It is a Negro audience and they already know his story.
(d) Too painful for him to speak about.