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