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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What Hotel is Minton's part of?
2. What is the fee for clients at the Lafargue Psychiatric Clinic?
3. What is remarkable about the psychiatric staff?
4. Who co-founds modern jazz with Parker?
5. What does Jones advise his audience to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the two categories Jones places the blues in?
2. What type of food is served at Minton's?
3. What captures the attention of many critics about "Blues People."
4. What was Jackson's early life like?
5. How does the early film "Birth of the Nation" portray Negro persons?
6. What is the film "Intruder in the Dust" about?
7. What does Ellison say is the invisible man's discovery?
8. What does Ellison believe Jackson's greatest gift is?
9. What place does "Living with Music" describe?
10. Who is Teddy Hill?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ellison's childhood is joyful and full of many artistic influences. What in the interview "That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure" gives you the most insight into his childhood? What activities stir up in the young Ellison that romantic longing and belief that any kind of life is possible? How does music and dance affect his life? Who are his heroes? Why?
Essay Topic 2
In "Some Questions and Some Answers" Ellison makes the provocative statement that there is no Negro culture. What does he mean by this? How does he support his argument? What history does he draw upon to reveal his thinking on this matter?
Essay Topic 3
"The Way It Is" is the earliest example of Ellison's writing which appears in "Shadow and Act." In what ways is it different from the other essays? Do you see the beginnings of Ellison's philosophy and understanding it? If no dates were show, do you think it would have been clear that this was an early work? Why or why not?
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