Zora Neale Hurston's Life
Give or take 5 years to either number, in what years was Zora Neale Hurston born and passed away?
1891-1960
Who is TEWWG's protagonist?
Give or take 5,000, how many African Americans relocated to Harlem, making Harlem the largest concentration of black people in the entire world?
175,000
What was the loose timeline mentioned for the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
1500-1800
What was the name of the series of laws that were put in place by Southern states to make it very difficult for newly freed African Americans to become established and successful on their own and allowed systems like share cropping and tenet farming to become popular?
Black Codes
In what city and state was Zora Neale Hurston born?
Notasulga, Alabama
With whom does Janie find true love amongst her three marriages?
Vergible "Tea Cake" Woods
What common name has been given to the mass influx of African Americans moving from the rural, agricultural south to the urban, industrial north that took place at the end of the 19th century?
The Great Migration
What was the main geographic footprint of the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
West and Central Africa to the Americas and Caribbean
What was the racial break down (black/white) of the sharecropping population?
2/3 white, 1/3 black, but all were at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
In what year did Zora Neale Hurston write Their Eyes Were Watching God?
1937
What form does the novel take on with Janie as the narrator of her own story?
The story is a flashback/recalling over her own life to her friend, Pheoby.
What event(s) brought an end to the Harlem Renaissance at the end of the 1920s?
The Stock Market crash of 1929 and the resulting Great Depression
African American cuisine is most influenced by which two cultures/cuisines?
FINISH THE STATEMENT: __________________, __________________, and _________________ lead sharecropping to fade away in the 1940s.
The Great Depression, mechanization, and other factors
How many times was Zora Neale Hurston married and how many of those marriages were successful?
What natural disaster does Janie survive that ultimately leaves her alone but strong, independent, and content?
A hurricane
FINISH THE STATEMENT: Most importantly, the Harlem Renaissance instilled in African Americans across the country a new spirit of self-determination and pride, a new social consciousness, and a new commitment to political activism, all of which would provide a foundation for the _________________________________.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Approximately how many people of African descent live in the Caribbean?
23 million people
FINISH THE STATEMENT: The practice of sharecropping sustained the plantation owners ________________ than it sustained the freed slaves.
"far better"
What was one major issue or problem Zora Neale Hurston had within the black community that she was a part of?
The fixation within the black community on the specific tone of black skin
What aspect of Janie's appearance elicits various reactions from male characters in the book and becomes a source of recognition and power for Janie?
He long, flowing, "Caucasian" hair
Alain Locke
Approximately how many people of African American descent live in South America?
100 million
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