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