African American Lit Review Final Exam

Who was an American novelist who wrote her first novel, The Bluest Eye, it was published in 1970.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Toni Morrison

• Rosa Parks

• Alice Walker

Who was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

• Maya Angelou

• Alex Haley

• Toni Morrison

• Zora Neale Hurston

Who delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech?

• Maya Angelou

• Terry Bradshaw

• Prince Fielder

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Who is famous for his writing "The Souls of Black Folks" and advocating for peaceful protests.

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Garrett Morgan

• Herspen Trink

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Who helped write and produce the 2020 movie "Da 5 Bloods" which was about 4 African American veterans going to recover their friend and treasure?

• Whoopi Goldberg

• Danny Glover

• Spike Lee

• John Singleton

Whose autobiography is entitled "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?"

• Toni Morrison

• Nikki Giovanni

• Maya Angelou

• Alice Walker

Who is the African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism that urged his fellow Black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary,”

• Jackie Robinson

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Booker T. Washington

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She became known for a speech with the famous refrain, "Ain't I a Woman?" that she was said to have delivered at a women's convention in Ohio in 1851.

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Jacobs

• Shirley Chisolm

• Gloria Taylor

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Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator ______. The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved.

• Paul Dunbar

• Booker T. Washington

• Chester Lloyd

• Mando Cunningham

A poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright, _______ is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life and his most famous poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".

• Richard Wright

• Malcolm X

• John Gibraltar

• Langston Hughes

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