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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 is Minton's Playhouse?
(a) Historic Jazz Club.
(b) Day Care Center.
(c) Restaurant.
(d) Broadway theater.
2. What institutions does Minton's evolve out of?
(a) New York Jazz Organization and Rockefeller Trust.
(b) Asbury Baptist and League of Women Voters.
(c) NAACP and YMCA.
(d) Clef Club and Rhythm Club.
3. What does the hero of "Invisible Man" do that is a common theme in Negro folklore?
(a) Writes his thoughts in song lyrics.
(b) Travels from the south and goes north to find freedom.
(c) Layers meaning under jokes and images of nature.
(d) Hides his true self from the world.
4. What Hotel is Minton's part of?
(a) Hotel LaGrand.
(b) Hotel Cecil.
(c) Hotel Plaza.
(d) Hotel Barbero.
5. Where is the Lafargue Psychiatric Clinic?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Lafargue.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Biloxi.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "The Art of Fiction: An Interview" what does Ellison say at the very beginning?
2. What two types of music is Ellison torn between as a child?
3. When is "The Birth of a Nation" released?
4. How does Ellison define the "understanding of art?"
5. What is Ellison's reaction to the term "Negro culture?"
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Ellison tell us about the matriarch, Mrs. Jackson, in "The Way It Is."
2. What experience in Ellison's childhood gives him patience with his upstairs singing neighbor?
3. What does the "drunk of legend" who lives on the corner do?
4. Who is Mahalia Jackson?
5. What does the mural above the bandstand at Minton's depict?
6. What does Ellison understand the term "Negro culture" to mean?
7. What type of music does the upstairs singer practice all day?
8. 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?
9. Why does Ellison disagree with Jones when he says "A slave cannot be a man"?
10. Where is the Lefargue Psychiatric Clinic located?
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