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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This author grew up in Harlem, which he portrayed in his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. | James Baldwin |
| who was the first African-American person to win a Pulitzer in 1950 for her poetry collection Annie Allen | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| If Beale Street Could Talk is by.... | James Baldwin |
| Who wrote The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin |
| Notes of a Native Son is by... | James Baldwin |
| Many of this persons works reflect her experiences in Bronzeville | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| who's best-known poem, “We Real Cool,” | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| who wrote the novel Maud Martha. | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| who is best known for his novel Invisible Man, | Ralph Ellison |
| Three Days Before the Shooting by... | Ralph Ellison |
| Juneteenth by... | Ralph Ellison |
| A Raisin in the Sun by... | Lorraine Hansberry |
| The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by... | Lorraine Hansberry |
| To Be Young, Gifted and Black is an autobiography by... | Lorraine Hansberry |
| “I, Too” is a poem by... | Langston Hughes |
| “Let America Be America Again” by... | Langston Hughes |
| “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by... | Langston Hughes |
| “The Weary Blues” by... | Langston Hughes |
| “Harlem,” by... | Langston Hughes |
| “What happens to a dream deferred?” by... | Langston Hughes |
| who set many of her works in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida. | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God by... | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Mules and Men by... | Zora Neale Hurston |
| first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature and won a Pulitzer for her novel Beloved. | Toni Morrison |
| The Bluest Eye is written by... | Toni Morrison |
| This African American author won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer for her novel The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| the short story “Everyday Use” is by which African American author | Alice Walker |
| This African American author was freed in the 1770s shortly after the release of her collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Phillis Wheatley |
| “On Being Brought from Africa to America” is a poem by this American author | Phillis Wheatley |
| This author praised George Washington in her poem “To His Excellency General Washington.” | Phillis Wheatley |
| _ _ _ _ _ _ wrote the 1940 bestseller Native Son. | Richard Wright |
| Who wrote the collection Uncle Tom’s Children, is a collection of novellas including “Big Boy Leaves Home” and “Fire and Cloud" | Richard Wright |
| Black Boy is a memoir by..... | Richard Wright |
| This person wrote Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Name this person who wrote Long Days journey into the Night | Eugene O'neill |
| Who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Edward Albee |
| Who wrote A Streetcar named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry, |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O'neill |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O'neill |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams, |
| Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman |