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A Raisin in the Sun
Harlem Renaissance
Native Son
Slave Narratives
100
"The white man was responsible for the black man's condition in this wilderness of North America"
Who is Malcolm X?
100
This apartment item acts as a metaphor throughout the play
What is the window plant?
100
This book is comprised of 3 sections: 1) rural blacks in Georgia, 2) urban blacks in Chicago and D.C., 3) semi-autobiographical dramatic piece
What is "Cane" by Jean Toomer
100
This is the literature genre which "Native Son" is considered
What is Naturalism?
100
This woman had to appear before a council to prove she was in fact the author of her writings
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
200
"Cast down your bucket where you are"
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
This is the term that keeps coming up, describing black people's involvement in white society
What is assimilation?
200
He wrote the poem "I, Too" in response to Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
This is what Bigger keeps saying he wants to do to the outside world
What is "blot it out"?
200
This woman wrote her autobiography “to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition” of women in bondage in the South
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
300
“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
300
This is how much money the insurance check was worth
What is $10,000?
300
His most famous poem ends "Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!"
Who is Countee Cullen?
300
These are the titles of all three books in "Native Son"
What is Fear, Flight, and Fate?
300
This man was born a tribal prince in West Africa
Who is Venture Smith?
400
“Well, I dunno whe’r you b’lieves in cunj’in’ er not, - some er de w’ite folks don’t, er says dey don’t, - but de truf er de matter is dat dis yer ole vimya’d is goophered.”
Who is Charles Chesnutt?
400
This is the poem and poet from which Hansberry gets the title of the play
What is "Harlem" or "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes
400
This poem, written in 1919, was later recited by Winston Churchill and became a rallying cry for Allied Forces in WWII
What is "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay?
400
This is the diner where Bigger, Jan, and Mary eat
What is Ernie's Kitchen Shack?
400
The autobiography of this former slave is regarded as the prototype of the slave narrative, known for his detailed account of the Middle Passage
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
500
"I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed/ children"
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
500
This is the family experience off of which Hansberry loosely bases the play
What is Hansberry v. Lee?
500
In her short story "Sweat," one of the characters states, "Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im"
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
500
He is the Bible character that Bigger is often compared to
Who is Job?
500
This former slave began his path to literacy when his master’s wife, Mrs. Auld, taught him the ABCs
Who is Frederick Douglass?