Quiz  /  African American Writers Quiz

  • 1. 
    The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved are novels by which writer?

  • Ralph Ellison
  • James Baldwin
  • Toni Morrison
  • Lorraine Hansberry

  • 2. 
    Who wrote the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God?

  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Claude McKay
  • Langston Hughes
  • Zora Neale Hurston

  • 3. 
    What writer introduced the amateur detective Ezekiel (“Easy”) Rawlins?

  • E. Lynn Harris
  • Henry Louis Gates
  • Walter Mosley
  • Christopher Chambers

  • 4. 
    What writer was also the first African American to become a staff photographer for Life magazine?

  • Alice Walker
  • Gordon Parks
  • James Baldwin
  • Alex Haley

  • 5. 
    Who wrote Home to Harlem and Banjo to capture and express the vitality of urban American and European black vagabonds?

  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Claude McKay
  • Dorothy West
  • Richard Wright
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