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Who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God?

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  1. 1 Easy

    Which civil rights group launched The Crisis magazine in 1910?

    Answer: NAACP

    Why: James Russell Lowell's antislavery poem The Present Crisis gave the magazine its name.

  2. 2 Medium

    In which US state was Langston Hughes born?

    Answer: Missouri

    Why: He was born in Joplin but spent most of his childhood in Lawrence, Kansas, with his grandmother.

  3. 3 Hard

    When was Hughes and Hurston's 1930 play Mule Bone first staged?

    Answer: 1991

    Why: Lincoln Center Theater put it on Broadway in February 1991, where it ran for 68 performances.

  4. 4 Easy

    Who edited The Crisis magazine from 1910 to 1934?

    Answer: W. E. B. Du Bois

    Why: The magazine grew from about 1,000 copies a month in its first year to more than 100,000 readers by 1918.

  5. 5 Medium

    Who is often called the 'dean' of the Harlem Renaissance?

    Answer: Alain Locke

    Why: Long before Harlem, Locke studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1907 to 1910.

  6. 6 Hard

    What award made Nella Larsen the first Black woman to win it?

    Answer: Guggenheim Fellowship

    Why: She received it in 1930, published no more novels and later went back to work as a nurse.

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