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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What Hotel is Minton's part of?
(a) Hotel LaGrand.
(b) Hotel Cecil.
(c) Hotel Plaza.
(d) Hotel Barbero.
2. What is the original title of the film "The Birth of a Nation?"
(a) The Clansman.
(b) KKK Army.
(c) Domination.
(d) White Pride.
3. Who interviews Ellison in "The Art of Fiction?"
(a) Alfred Chester & Vilma Howard.
(b) John Jacob & Nancy Kerry.
(c) Gertrude Whittall and T. S. Eliot.
(d) Donald Gibson and Bob Edwards.
4. Who is Charlie Christian?
(a) Highest paid night club singer.
(b) Innovative drummer.
(c) Greatest jazz guitarist.
(d) Haunting blues trumpeter.
5. How does Ellison describe Mahalia Jackson?
(a) Female Louis Armstrong.
(b) Jazz Diva.
(c) Uncle Tom.
(d) High Priestess.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do all American Negros share?
2. What is Jimmy Rushing's instrument?
3. Where is Ellison living in the essay "Living with Music?"
4. Why does "Invisible Man" take so long to complete?
5. What is Ellison's reaction to the term "Negro culture?"
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the early film "Birth of the Nation" portray Negro persons?
2. What place does "Living with Music" describe?
3. When asked when he began "Invisible Man" what does Ellison answer?
4. Who does the song "They picked poor robin clean" remind Ellison of?
5. What type of food is served at Minton's?
6. What experience in Ellison's childhood gives him patience with his upstairs singing neighbor?
7. Why does Ellison disagree with Jones when he says "A slave cannot be a man"?
8. What does Ellison believe is the primary American theme in both life and literature?
9. In the Paris Review (Spring 1955) Ellison was interviewed about his work as a writer. What does he say his first piece of professional writing was?
10. What captures the attention of many critics about "Blues People."
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