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Ralph Ellison - Test
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  • 1. When was Ralph Ellison born?
A) 1900
B) 1940
C) 1913
D) 1925
  • 2. What was Ralph Ellison's most famous novel?
A) Invisible Man
B) The Great Gatsby
C) Beloved
D) To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 3. In which field did Ralph Ellison earn his degree at Tuskegee Institute?
A) Literature
B) Medicine
C) Music
D) Engineering
  • 4. What prestigious literary award did Ralph Ellison receive in 1953 for his novel 'Invisible Man'?
A) Man Booker Prize
B) National Book Award
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) Nobel Prize in Literature
  • 5. What year did Ralph Ellison pass away?
A) 2005
B) 1994
C) 1980
D) 1960
  • 6. Ralph Ellison's collection of essays 'Shadow and Act' was published in which year?
A) 1964
B) 1985
C) 1975
D) 1950
  • 7. What literary movement was Ralph Ellison associated with?
A) Beat Generation
B) Transcendentalism
C) Lost Generation
D) Harlem Renaissance
  • 8. What genre of music greatly influenced Ralph Ellison's writing?
A) Pop
B) Country
C) Jazz
D) Classical
  • 9. Ralph Ellison was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in which year?
A) 1985
B) 2000
C) 1969
D) 1975
  • 10. Which college did Ralph Ellison attend, but left after three years due to financial difficulties?
A) Yale University
B) Oberlin College
C) Tuskegee Institute
D) Harvard University
  • 11. Where did Ralph Ellison work as a writer-in-residence during the 1960s?
A) Rutgers University
B) Princeton University
C) Columbia University
D) Stanford University
  • 12. Where was Ralph Ellison born?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
C) New York City, New York
D) Chicago, Illinois
  • 13. What is the title of Ralph Ellison's posthumous novel?
A) Invisible Man
B) Juneteenth
C) Shadow and Act
D) Going to the Territory
  • 14. What did Ralph Ellison's father hope he would become?
A) A poet
B) A scholar
C) An author
D) A musician
  • 15. Why did Ellison's mother move the family to Gary, Indiana?
A) To escape racial discrimination
B) She believed they would have a better chance of reaching manhood in the north.
C) For better job opportunities for her brother
D) Because she wanted to live closer to family
  • 16. What instrument did Ellison play?
A) Guitar
B) Violin
C) Trumpet and alto saxophone
D) Piano
  • 17. Who became a close friend of Ralph Ellison during his time in Rome?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Ezra Pound
D) Robert Penn Warren
  • 18. Which literary figure introduced Ellison to Harlem's black literary establishment?
A) Richard Wright
B) Langston Hughes
C) Morteza Drexel Sprague
D) Zelia N. Breaux
  • 19. Who was Ralph Ellison's lifelong friend with whom he corresponded about jazz and the Civil Rights Movement?
A) Richard Wright
B) Langston Hughes
C) Albert Murray
D) James Baldwin
  • 20. Which event caused Ellison and Richard Wright to lose faith in the Communist Party?
A) The Civil Rights Movement
B) World War II, when they felt the party had betrayed African Americans.
C) The Korean War
D) The Great Depression
  • 21. Which academy admitted Ellison as its first African-American member?
A) Century Association
B) Harvard University
C) American Academy of Arts and Letters
D) New York Academy of Sciences
  • 22. When were all manuscripts of Ellison's incomplete novel published collectively by Modern Library?
A) May 1, 2003
B) January 26, 2010
C) February 18, 2014
D) 1999
  • 23. What was the denomination of the USPS stamp issued to honor Ralph Ellison?
A) 50¢
B) 91¢
C) $1.00
D) 75¢
  • 24. Which honorary degree did Ralph Ellison receive from Harvard University?
A) Doctorate
B) Bachelor's Degree
C) Master's Degree
D) PhD in Literature
  • 25. What is the ISBN of 'Going to the Territory'?
A) 0375760237
B) 0394540506
C) 0679760008
D) 978-0812998528
  • 26. What is the ISBN of 'The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison'?
A) 978-0812998528
B) 0375503676
C) 0394540506
D) 0679601767
  • 27. What was the name of the anthology that included an essay written by Ellison while he was in Rome?
A) Modern American Prose
B) A New Southern Harvest
C) The Great Gatsby Collection
D) Southern Voices
  • 28. What theme does Invisible Man primarily explore?
A) The history of jazz music
B) The impact of World War II
C) A person's search for their identity and place in society.
D) The life of a musician
  • 29. Which artist did Ellison collaborate with on a photo essay titled 'Harlem is Nowhere'?
A) Gordon Parks
B) Richard Wright
C) Romare Bearden
D) Langston Hughes
  • 30. Which modernist classic had a major impact on Ellison during his time at Tuskegee?
A) Ulysses by James Joyce
B) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
C) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
  • 31. Which medal did Ellison receive from President Lyndon Johnson?
A) Nobel Peace Prize
B) National Humanities Medal
C) Congressional Gold Medal
D) Presidential Medal
  • 32. How many pages did Ellison write for his unfinished second novel?
A) More than 2,000 pages
B) 300 pages
C) 100 pages
D) 500 pages
  • 33. In what year did Ralph Ellison become a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres?
A) 1994
B) 1980
C) 1965
D) 1970
  • 34. What was the name of the charity that supported Ellison's wife financially?
A) Tuskegee Institute
B) American Medical Center for Burma Frontiers
C) New York Literary Society
D) Harlem Community Fund
  • 35. In which year was 'Flying Home and Other Stories' published?
A) 1989
B) 1996
C) 2014
D) 2001
  • 36. Who edited Ralph Ellison's second novel, 'Juneteenth', after his death?
A) Marc C. Conner
B) Albert Murray
C) John F. Callahan
D) Lewis & Clark College
  • 37. What is the ISBN for 'Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray'?
A) 0679760008
B) 0679601767
C) 978-0812998528
D) 0375503676
  • 38. Who was the head of the music department at Tuskegee Institute when Ellison attended?
A) Inman E. Page
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) Morteza Drexel Sprague
D) William L. Dawson
  • 39. Who was Ralph Ellison's first wife?
A) Rose Araminta Poindexter
B) Ida Millsap
C) Zelia N. Breaux
D) Fanny McConnell
  • 40. What profession did Ellison's mother have after remarrying?
A) Teacher
B) She worked various jobs to support the family.
C) Nurse
D) Librarian
  • 41. Which literary figure did Ellison dedicate his essay collection Shadow and Act to?
A) Langston Hughes
B) William L. Dawson
C) Richard Wright
D) Morteza Drexel Sprague
  • 42. Who awarded Ralph Ellison the State Medal from France?
A) France
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) United States
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