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