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Zora Neale Hurston
The Harlem Renaissance
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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100
Which state was Zora Neale Hurston was born in?
Alabama
100
What state is Harlem located in?
New York
100
Janie's third husband.
Tea Cake
100
The first black mayor of Eatonville
Joe Sparks
100
Name of the Movie we're watching as a class.
Their Eyes Were Watching God.
200
What town did Zora and her family move to?
Eatonville
200
Name two famous writers from the Harlem Renaissance
Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright
200
Janie's best friend.
Phoeby Watson
200
What was Janie doing just before Joe slapped her.
cutting a plug of tobacco
200
The amount of the largest royalty check Zora Neale Hurston ever received.
$943.75
300
How old was Zora when she moved out of her father's home?
14
300
Name two famous musicians from the Harlem Renaissance.
Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith
300
Janie's first husband.
Logan Killicks
300
Janie's maiden name
Crawford
300
The name of the movement of many African Americans from the South to the North.
The Great Migration
400
What college did Zora attend?
Howard University or Barnard College (either or both are acceptable answers)
400
Define: Literati
learned people
400
Age difference between Janie and Tea Cake.
12 years difference
400
The year Zora Neale Hurston died.
1960
400
Another name for the Harlem Renaissance.
New Negro Movement
500
In what country did Zora write Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Haiti
500
Define: indelible
cannot be erased or moved
500
Janie's first kiss was with this person.
Johnny Taylor
500
She erected a gravestone for Hurston.
Alice Walker
500
Define: renaissance
rebirth