11) 20th Century African American Literature

Question 1

Zora Neale Hurston

Answer 1

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Question 2

Tony Morrison

Answer 2

Beloved

Question 3

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Answer 3

Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, We Should All Be Feminists, Notes on Grief

Question 4

Alice Walker

Answer 4

The Color Purple

Question 5

When was Their Eyes Were Watching God published?

Answer 5

in 1937

Question 6

What is the setting of Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Answer 6

early 20th century, primarily in rural Florida

Question 7

What is the name of the main character in Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Answer 7

Janie Crawford

Question 8

What are the names of Janie Crawford’s husbands?

Answer 8

Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, Tea Cake

Question 9

How does Their Eyes Were Watching God end?

Answer 9

Janie returns to Eatonville after Tea Cake’s death, she is older and wiser, but still determined to live life on her own terms

Question 10

What is the setting of Toni Morrison’s Beloved?

Answer 10

Cincinnati, Ohio, in the years following the Civil War

Question 11

Who is Sethe?

Answer 11

The main character in Beloved

Question 12

What is the name of Sethe’s daughter?

Answer 12

Denver

Question 13

Who is Beloved?

Answer 13

Sethe’s daughter whom she killed in a desperate attempt to save her from a life of slavery

Question 14

Ralph Ellison

Answer 14

Invisible Man

Question 15

James Baldwin

Answer 15

Notes of a Native Son, Giovanni’s Room