Black History Month Quiz

Black History Month Quiz

Easy

1.  This famous poet wrote and performed a piece for the inauguration of President Clinton.
2.  This writer is the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
3.  These songs were crafted during slavery times in opposition to their situation.
4.  The movie made from this book, written by Alice Walker, propelled Oprah Winfrey into
     Hollywood fame.
5.  This songwriter, record producer, music director, singer, pianist, and rapper, has revolutionized urban
     contemporary Gospel music.

Medium

1. This mystic spent time with Ghandi and was an advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the author of Meditations of the Heart and Jesus and the Disinherited.
2. This was an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
3. She is the author of Beloved, which Oprah funded the made for TV adaptation, who also was named recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature.
4. She wrote A Raisin in the Sun, the first play by an African American woman produced on Broadway.
5. This theologian is known as the “Father of Black Theology.”

Hard

1. This noted African theologian was an Anglican priest from Kenya, taught Theology and Religion at Makerere University in Uganda and authored African Religions and Philosophy.
2. Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, is the seminal African novel in English by this writer.
3. This Nigerian Nobel laureate has published several volumes of poetry, including Idanre and Other Poems (1967).
4. This Black feminist, African American activist, educator, and writer, has written such books as Sistah Soulja and Ain’t I a Woman.
5. These two prominent Black men and leaders had very different views of how Blacks should proceed during the civil rights era.
   
   

Expert

1. She is the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Mules and Men.
2. He was the first black photographer for Life Magazine and the first African American to make a Hollywood film when he wrote, produced, and directed The Learning Tree.
3. He wrote extensively on Black church history and teamed up with Lawrence H. Mamiya to write The Black Church in the African American Experience.
4. Name 3 Black theologians.
5. Name 3 womanist theologians.

Bonus: The greatest number of Africans from the Diaspora (84,070,967) went to this country.

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