Maya Angelou
Mildred D. Taylor
Langston Hughes
Alice Walker
100

This is Angelou's famous book with a winged animal in the title.

What is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

100

This is the novel that Taylor won a Newbery Award for.

What is Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry?

100

This is Hughe’s most famous jazz poem.

What is “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?

100

This is Walker’s most well-known novel.

What is The Color Purple?

200

This is who I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is about.

Who is Maya Angelou?

200

This is the number of novels that Taylor has written.

What is nine?

200

This is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that features strong accents, quick changes in rhythm, and irregular beats, imitating improvisation.

What is a jazz poem?

200

Alice Walker was the first African American woman to win this award.

What is the Pulitzer Prize?

300

Maya Angelou has earned a little more than this number of honorary degrees.

What is fifty?

300

Taylor was this age when she released her first novel.

What is nineteen years old?

300

This is a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I (1917) and the onset of the Great Depression and lead up to World War II (the 1930s).

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

300

The Color Purple is considered as this type of novel.

What is an epistolary novel?

400

This is the type of literature that Angelou wrote at a young age.

What is poetry?

400

This is the year that Taylor was born.

What is 1943?

400

This is a tale of troubles with work, women, money, and life, reflecting the lives of many poor black men in a racist society.

What is “From Here to Yonder”?

400
This is Alice Walker's current age.

What is 80 years old?

500

This is when Angelou was born.

When was April 4, 1928?

500

This is Taylor’s birthday.

What is September 13?

500

This is the year Hughes published his first book of poetry, “Weary Blues."

What is 1926?

500

Walker went blind in one eye at this age.

What is 8 years old?