About Baldwin
Sonny's Blues
Harlem Renaissance
100

At the age of 14, what did James Baldwin become?

A. Civil Rights Activist
B. Preacher
C. Essayist

B. Preacher

100

What has Sonny been arrested for? 

Selling and using Heroin

100

The majority of the Harlem Renaissance took place around what decade?

1920s

200

Why did readers stop supporting Baldwin? 

Hint: these readers found _______ offensive.

Readers stopped supporting him because they found gay matter to be offensive.

200

What did Sonny dream of becoming and what was his instrument? 

Jazz Pianist & Piano

200

Harlem is located in what island in New York?

Manhattan

300

A theater teacher at Baldwin's middle school introduced him to the works of whom? 

hint: an author and playwright 

A theater teacher at his middle school introduced him to the writings of Charles Dickens and took him to see Shakespeare plays in the city.

300

What did Sonny along with the other musicians use jazz or the playing of music to express?

Expression of freedom; their struggles 

300

Name one of the contributing writers in "The New Negro" (1925) mentioned in this presentation.

Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset, or W.E.B. DuBois.

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