HBCU
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Authors
Howard
Setting/Places
100

Toni Morrison attended and taught at what HBCU?

Howard University

100

What is Toni Morrison's debut novel?

"The Bluest Eye"

100

Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" 

Zora Neale Hurston

100

Who is the Howard University Alumna who wrote "Tar Baby"

Toni Morrison

100

In the Harry Potter series (author unknown) children run through which platform to board the Hogwarts express? 

Platform 9 3/4

200

Nikki Giovanni attended what HBCU in Tennessee? 

Fisk University

200

What is the Richard Wright novel James Baldwin criticized in "Everybody's Protest Novel"

"Native Son"

200

What is the pen name of Marguerite Ann Johnson, author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?

Maya Angelou 

200

Which Howard University professor wrote the poem "Strong Men"

Sterling A. Brown

200

"Things Fall Apart" takes place in which African country

Nigeria

300

Alice Walker briefly attended what HBCU in Atlanta?

Spelman College

300

What is the alternative title to Danez Smith's poetry collection "Homie"

"My Nig"

300

Who wrote the superior protest novel "The Street"

Ann Petry

300

What on campus building houses the English department?

Locke Hall

300

"A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid is set in what country?

Antigua

400

Langston Hughs attended what HBCU in Pennsylvania?

Lincoln University

400
What Octavia E. Butler novel is out of print because she "didn't like it" 

"Survivor", a novel in the Patternist series

400

Who was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Alice Walker

400

Which Harlem Renaissance writer had their ashes held in Locke Hall?

Alaine Locke

400

What is the year that "Parable of the Sower" begins in?

2024

500

Poets Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Dolores Kendrick attended what HBCU in Washington D.C.? 

University of the District of Columbia 

500

The 2018 film "Rafiki" is based off this short story written by the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing winner Monica Arac de Nyeko

"Jambula Tree"

500

This African American science-fiction writer was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant

Octavia E. Butler

500

What was Howard Alumnus, Amiri Baraka's, given name?

Leroi Jones

500

Which Toni Morrison novel takes place in "The Bottom"

"Sula"