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Who is the first African American woman to publish a book of poems in English?
Phyliss Wheatley
100
How long did Harriet Jacobs hide in her grandmothers home?
7 years
100
What music genre is infused in the poetry of Langston Hughes?
Jazz
100
In the story "Raymonds Run" what does Squeaky learn about her brother Raymond?
That he is a great runner
100
Gordon Parks is known for being a renaissance man what was his weapon of choice?
A camera
200
From what poem does the lines "I wanta just gotta say something, bout those beautiful black men" and who is the author?
Beautiful Black Men by Nikki Giovanni
200
What type of music was James Weldon Johnson good at playing?
Ragtime music
200
What was Claude Mckay's writing style criticized for?
rhyme style/ English sonnett to rigid and confined
200
In Charles Chestnutt's The Passing of Grandison why did Grandison return to his slave master after being freed in the North.
In an atttempt to trick his master in believing that is loyal and free his family.
200
What novel by Alice Walker won her the Pulitzer Prize?
The Color Purple
300
Maya AngelouWho wrote the poem Still I Rise?
Maya Angelou
300
In the end why did James Weldon Johnson decide to live his life as a white man?
For the sake of his children
300
Who wrote the poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "I Too?
Langston Hughes
300
In Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" what must be eaten to rejuvenate life?
Eggs
300
What is Alice Walker's poem "In Search of Our Mothers Gardens" about?
Searching for the lost traditions of black women when they were not allowed to express themselves creatively.
400
Why did Audre Lorde remove the letter y from her name?
She did not like the way the letter y hung down and she would forget to write it.
400
Name 2 ways in which Frederick Douglass learned to read?
His female master started to teach him before her husband told her not to. He tricked poor white kids by telling them they didnt know how to spell.
400
What is Claude Mckay's poem "Harlem Shadows" about?
Black prostitutes in Harlem
400
In James Baldwins Going to Meet the Man what distubing act is being witnessed at the "picnic".
A black man is being lynched, mutilated and set on fire.
400
Who is the author of Daughter of the Dust?
Julie Dash
500
What literary Movement was Sonia Sanchez poetry known for?
Black Arts Movement
500
Name two things Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass narrative have in common?
both born mulatto/ equate literacy to freedom/ themes of family religion/ deatiled horrors of slavery/ escaped slavery
500
Countee Cullens writting responded to Alain Lockes idea of what?
The New Negro
500
In Charles Chestnutt "Goopherd Grapevine" how was Mr. Mcadoo able to profit from the curse put on Henry?
He would sell him when he was strong and buy him back when he was weak.
500
Name at least 4 characters that died in Gordon Parks the Learning Tree.
Tuck, Mabel, Marcus /Booker Savage, Doc Cheney, Jack Kiner, Sara Winger.