Author
who is that?
Events
100
Ellison's grandparents were these back in the 1800s.
What are slaves?
100
One of the old, rich, white benefactors of the narrator's college who insisted in hearing Trueblood's story of incest.
Who is Mr. Norton?
100
clifton is shot by a Police Officer
How does Clifton die?
200
Where Ellison went to college.
What is Tuskegee Institute?
200
The last potential employer to whom the narrator gives a letter. He reveals Dr. Bledsoe's cruel trick.
Who is Mr. Emerson?
200
Brother Jack Initiates the Narrator
how does the narrator enter the brotherhood?
300
IM was published in this year.
What is 1952?
300
A black member of the Brotherhood who eventually sells Sambo dolls in the neighborhood.
Who is Tod Clifton?
300
Mr. Norton is injured
how does the narrator get kicked out of the school?
400
this 20th century French philosophy heavily influenced Ellison's novel
What is existentialism?
400
a motherly black woman who steps into the narrator's life after he leaves the hospital
Who is Mary Rambo?
400
Liberty Paints
Where does the narrator start working once he gets to Harlem?
500
Ellison was born here in 1914, once considered a frontier state
What is Oklahoma?
500
a white woman who uses the narrator to act out a fantasy
Who is Sybil?
500
Running to Mary's house.
How does the narrator fall into the manHole
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