1. For which book did Gwendolyn Brooks win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, the first Black writer to receive a Pulitzer? A Street in Bronzeville Annie Allen The Bean Eaters In the Mecca Brooks won for Annie Allen (1949). “We Real Cool” appeared later, in The Bean Eaters (1960). Read more 2. Which Toni Morrison novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988? Beloved Song of Solomon The Bluest Eye Sula Beloved, published in 1987, won the Pulitzer in 1988. Song of Solomon won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Read more 3. Zora Neale Hurston graduated from Barnard College in 1928 after studying with which anthropologist? Margaret Mead Alain Locke Ruth Benedict Franz Boas Hurston studied with Franz Boas at Barnard before collecting the folklore published in Mules and Men (1935). Read more 4. In June 1921 Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” appeared in which magazine? Opportunity The Messenger The Crisis Survey Graphic The poem was published in The Crisis, the NAACP magazine, in June 1921. Read more 5. In August 1940 Charles R. Drew became medical supervisor of which project? The Manhattan Project Blood for Britain The Tuskegee Airmen medical corps The Freedmen’s Hospital nursing school Drew supervised the Blood for Britain project, drawing on his Columbia dissertation “Banked Blood,” before directing the American Red Cross pilot blood bank in 1941. Read more 6. Katherine Johnson verified the orbital calculations for which astronaut’s Friendship 7 mission in February 1962? Alan Shepard Gus Grissom Scott Carpenter John Glenn Johnson verified the orbit for John Glenn’s Friendship 7 on 20 February 1962; a year earlier her trajectory analysis supported Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7. Read more 7. At which Olympic Games did Jesse Owens win four gold medals? Berlin, 1936 Los Angeles, 1932 Amsterdam, 1928 London, 1948 Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics on 3–9 August 1936. Read more 8. With which team did Jackie Robinson make his major league debut on 15 April 1947? The New York Giants The Boston Braves The Brooklyn Dodgers The Cleveland Indians Robinson debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, breaking the twentieth-century color line; he was named 1947 Rookie of the Year. Read more 9. Which song, recorded by Billie Holiday on 20 April 1939, confronted lynching? “God Bless the Child” “Lift Every Voice and Sing” “Ol’ Man River” “Strange Fruit” Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” for Commodore in 1939. Read more 10. Lewis Latimer’s U.S. Patent No. 252,386, granted on 17 January 1882, covered what? An improved telephone transmitter A process of manufacturing carbon filaments A phonograph needle An electric streetcar motor Latimer patented a process for manufacturing the carbon filaments used in electric lamps. Earlier, in 1876, he had drawn the figures for Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patent. Read more Check my answers ← All quizzes