Anyone Can Fly
Faith Ringgold is ___
a. a musician
b. a clothes designer
c. a pilot
d. an artist
d. an artist
How is Faith Ringgold like her art?
a. She is a mixture of Africa and America.
b. She is from Harlem.
c. She is a writer.
d. She is an artist.
a. She is a mixture of Africa and America.
Who made Faith dream of reaching other people with her art?
a. her favorite musicians
b. her mother
c. her favorite artists
d. her sister
b. her mother
Become sound or healthy again.
Heal
planned or conceived in detail or for a specific purpose.
Designed
Who helped Faith believe in herself and become an artist?
a. her teacher
b. another artist
c. her mother
d. a friend
c. her mother
Faith's story quilts combine ______.
a. painting and quilting only
b. painting and words only
c. quilting and words only
d. painting, quilting, and words
d. painting, quilting, and words
What is a story quilt?
a. a quilt made for storyteller
b. a painting that tells a story
c. a children's book about quilts
d. a quilt made from fabric
b. a painting that tells a story
A person who was in someone's family in past times.
Ancestors
A cloth or other material produced by weaving or knitting fibers.
Fabrics
Faith liked art from ____.
a. Africa
b. Asia
c. America
d. Australia
a. Africa
The borders of Faith's story quilts are pieced together from _____.
a. canvas
b. fabric
c. quilts
d. words
b. fabric
What was the title of Faith's first children's book?
a. Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky
b. My Dream of Martin Luther King
c. Tar Beach
d. Dinner at Aunt Connie's House
c. Tar Beach
A knitted or fabric bedspread with decorative stitching.
Quilts
A strong, coarse unbleached cloth made from hemp, flax, cotton, or a similar yarn, used to make items such as sails and tents and as a surface for oil painitng.
Canvas
Which word means about the same as fabric?
a. quiltb. sew
c. cloth
d. design
c. cloth
Tar Beach is the name of Faith Ringgold's first ______.
a. story quilt
b. children's book
c. house in Harlem
d. song about Africa
b. children's book
Which definition of slave best fits the Africans who were not free?
a. a person who is owned by someone else
b. a person who is ruled by a habit
c. a person who works very hard
d. a person who owns someone else
a. a person who is owned by someone else
A building or space for the display of art, usually from the museum's own collection.
Art Museums
The world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Africa
To make story quilts, Faith combined _____.
a. painting, quilting, and writing
b. painting and quilting only
c. words, numbers, and pictures
d. crayons, paper, and paint
a. painting, quilting, and writing
Which sentence uses the word ancestor correctly?
a. My ancestors came from Africa.
b. My parents are my ancestors.
c. I got a new bike from my ancestors.
d. My ancestors like me.
a. My ancestors came from Africa.
According to Martin Luther King, Jr., what does every good thing start with?
a. a beginning
b. an idea
c. a plan
d. a dream
d. a dream
An American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist and best known for her narrative quilts.
Faith Ringgold
An ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
African American