Shadow and Act Test | Final Test - Hard

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Shadow and Act Test | Final Test - Hard

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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 does Ellison believe Negro folklore does?

2. What year are the African slaves introduced into the American Colonies?

3. What is the "Act" Ellison refers to in the title of both the essay and the book?

4. Who co-founds modern jazz with Parker?

5. What does Charlie Christian play when he was a young child?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is LeRoi Jones?

3. What does Ellison tell us about the matriarch, Mrs. Jackson, in "The Way It Is."

4. What does the mural above the bandstand at Minton's depict?

5. Who is Mahalia Jackson?

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

7. What is the film "Intruder in the Dust" about?

8. What place does "Living with Music" describe?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Richard Wright's Blues" explores the history of southern Negro culture. What was the atmosphere Wright grew up in? What would he have been afraid of? Where did the violence, especially the beating and punishment from Negro parents upon their children, come from? How did this environment affect the young Wright? If he had stayed in the south would he have bloomed into the writer and thinker that he did? What did Ellison think about the chances of that happening?

Essay Topic 2

The final essay in the book was never published. It is a book review of the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal who was brought in by the Carnegie Foundation to study the "Negro problem." What is Ellison's primary reaction to the book? What is positive in Myrdal's assessment? What does Ellison object to? Why do you think the review was never published?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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