Angelou's Personal Life
Are you Game for Ghana?
Traveling Woman!
Self Discovery
Mixed bag
100
This was the city in which Angelou first meet her husband?
What was New York City
100
Is this story true?
Yes it is true.
100
What is the name of her son and what happens to him?
Guy. He is in a car accident.
100
What does the woman give the man to welcome Angelou to their town?
Beer
100
This word means to reject bluntly; snub
What is rebuff
200
This was the reason for Angelou's sojourn to Ghana?
What was to find her identity or her history.
200
What is the big city that Angelou lives in for one year?
Accra
200
What does a freedom fighter do?
Fight for equal rights between whites and blacks.
200
Who does the man of the village send Angelou to stay with?
Who are the newlyweds
200
This word means secret; stealthy
What is surreptitious
300
It was in this decade that Angelou meet her husband?
What was the 1960's.
300
What two countries did Angelou visit while being a journalist?
What are Ghana and Egypt.
300
This happens to Guy on his way to university.
What is he is in a car accident.
300
It's the place the man of the village believes Angelou is from?
What is Bambara, Liberia.
300
Why are the natives afraid of Angelou once she says she is a stranger?
Answer: They are afraid she is a witch or demon that might cast a spell on them and their families/town.
400
This was how Anjelou described her husband's occupation.
What was a South African freedom fighter.
400
What does Angelou imagine in her head as she’s driving?
She envisions slaves in the town shackled but not crying. In her mind, children, men and women are tormented and led to slavery.
400
It was the name of the town that she wants to visit to feel welcome?
What is Dunkwa.
400
Angelou wanted to avoid Dunkwa for an entire year?
What is she wanted to avoid her families past experiences with slavery. This was the town all slaves were led to before coming to America.
400
When she first arrives to the town, who welcomes her?
Children from the town wanting money.
500
Anjelou was know as both an author and this
What is a poet or actress.
500
This is the reason the people in Ghana are confused that she only has one child?
What is In the U.S., one child is enough, but in Ghana, a woman must have as many children as possible to empower the town.
500
It is the symbolic meaning of the black river? Use textual evidence to support your answer.
What is Death, decay...Symbolizes the horrors of the slavery
500
It was is the name of the place (an historic building) she avoided seeing for a year while in Africa
What is Cape Coast Castle
500
This word describes a surrounding region
What is environs