50 tests on a topic “The literature of Great Depression: John Steinbeck, E. Caldwell

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Claude McKay

5.What writer introduced the amateur detective Ezekiel (“Easy”) Rawlins?

1. 
   Lynn Harris
   
2. 
   Henry Louis Gates
   
3. 
   Walter Mosley
   
4. 
   Christopher Chambers
   

6.This man was known as the first published African American poet. Which one of these is Jupiter Hammon's poem that started off with this verse?

"Salvation comes by Christ alone,

The only Son of God;
Redemption now to every one,
That love his holy Word."Hint

1. 
   An African's Praise
   
2. 
   The Agony of Christ
   
3. 
   An Evening Thought
   
4. 
   The Suffering of Christ
   

7.This lady was a record breaker for her literature and women writers! She was a slave that learned to read and write from her masters, who also encouraged her to write poetry. Her work was praised by the British and Americans alike during the American Revolutionary War. Who was the first African American lady poet to publish a book in the United States?Hint

1. 
   Sojourner Truth
   
2. 
   Phillis Wheatley
   
3. 
   Maya Angelou
   
4. 
   Alice Walker
   

8.Frances Harper was one of the first African American novelists. Which of these works, her first novel, contained the story of a young woman of mixed race who lives through the Civil War and embraces her African American identity?Hint

1. 
   The Two Offers
   
2. 
   Forest Leaves
   
3. 
   Iola Leroy
   
4. 
   Sketches of a Southern Life
   

9.Several African Americans became famous for their autobiographies about their lives as slaves, including Frederick Douglass, who became a leading figure in the abolitionist movement.

True
False

10.This man was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard. Which of these is the author who was famous for his collection of essays, "The Souls of Black Folk"?Hint

1. 
   William English Walling
   
2. 
   W.E.B. DuBois
   
3. 
   Oswald Garrison Villard
   
4. 
   Frances Blascoer
   

11.This lady is well known for her autobiographies and her poetry. She wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", which was the story of her life that brought her international attention. What is the pen name of Marguerite Ann Johnson?

Answer: Maya Angelou

12.Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction work. What was the name of the novel Alice Walker wrote, that featured the life of a black woman who was abused by her father and husband?Hint

1. 
   The Help
   
2. 
   The Color Black
   
3. 
   To Kill a Mockingbird
   
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