Black History Month Teaser

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Who is the author of 'Native Son'? Zora Neale Hurston Richard Wright James Baldwin Ralph Ellison

2. What is the name of the central character of 'Native Son'? Jackson Washington Ben Christmas Rafer Johnson Bigger Thomas

3. Who is the author of the novel 'Giovanni's Room'? Countee Cullen James Baldwin Toni Morrison James Van Der Zee

4. In what Faulkner novel is Dilsey a central figure? 'A Light In August' 'Sound and the Fury' 'As I Lay Dying' 'Absalom, Absalom!'

5. In what Toni Morrison novel does the character Milkman Dead travel from Detroit through Montour County in Pennsylvania? 'The Bluest Eye' 'Jazz' 'Sula' 'Song of Solomon'

6. Who wrote the Broadway choreo-poem play, 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf'? Gwendolyn Brooks Sonja Sanchez Ntozake Shange Nikki Giovanni

7. Who was the enslaved woman who is believed to have borne Thomas Jefferson at least four children? Marie Laveau Jane Huston Maisie Sally Hemings

8. Martin Luther King jr. was assassinated on the balcony of what Memphis hotel? The Audobon The Lorraine Hotel The Memphis Southern The Jackson

9. What African American actor was the title character in the film, 'Sergeant Rutledge'? Paul Robeson Ossie Davis James Earle Jones Woody Strode

10. Olympic long distance runner Kip Keino was from what African country? Chad South Africa Liberia Kenya