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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 does Ellison say slaves had in place of freedom?
(a) Suffering, despair, darkness.
(b) Dementia, mental illness, emptiness.
(c) Blues, spirituals, jazz.
(d) Early death, disease, drunkenness.

2. Where is Ellison living in the essay "Living with Music?"
(a) Cabin on board ship.
(b) Tiny ground floor rear apartment.
(c) Across from the Manhattan School of Music.
(d) Vermont barn.

3. Who says Negro dock workers were the best singers of Irish songs?
(a) Paul Oliver.
(b) Stanley Hyman.
(c) Constance Rourke.
(d) Lafcadio Hearn.

4. What is Jimmy Rushing's instrument?
(a) Violin.
(b) Banjo.
(c) Voice.
(d) Piano.

5. What is the basic spiritual outlook of the American Negro?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Pentecostal.
(c) Cosmological.
(d) Ontological.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jones advise his audience to do?

2. What does Ellison do to find some peace and quiet?

3. What Hotel is Minton's part of?

4. Who is Mrs. Lydia Maria Child?

5. What do the blues capture?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is LeRoi Jones?

2. Who is Mahalia Jackson?

3. What was Jackson's early life like?

4. What does the "drunk of legend" who lives on the corner do?

5. What type of music does the upstairs singer practice all day?

6. Who is Teddy Hill?

7. When asked when he began "Invisible Man" what does Ellison answer?

8. Where is the Lefargue Psychiatric Clinic located?

9. How does the early film "Birth of the Nation" portray Negro persons?

10. Who does the song "They picked poor robin clean" remind Ellison of?

(see the answer keys)

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