Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz

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The Gwendolyn Brooks Quiz

Test your knowledge of the celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks with this engaging quiz! Learn about her life, achievements, and impact on literature, particularly within the Black Arts Movement.

Challenge yourself with questions that cover:

Her early life and career
Major awards and recognitions
Significant works and contributions to poetry

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by WritingStar512

Gwendolyn Brooks of the Black Arts Movement was a...

Actor

Engineer

Poet

Renowned Physician

Gwendolyn Brooks was born June 7, 1917 in...

Atlanta, GA

Chicago, IL

Topeka. KS

New York, NY

She was the first African- American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

True

False

Brooks' considered her lifelong residency in this city "My Headquarters". This city was a source of her work and characters.

Chicago, IL

Birmingham, AL

Los Angeles, CA

New York, NY

She published her first poem at the age of?

Gwendolyn Brooks' first book of poetry was entitled?

The Weary Blues

A Street in Bronzeville

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

If Beale Street Could Talk

She was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Academy of American Poets..

True

False

She was Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, the first Black woman to hold such position?

True

False

Her first and only novel, "Maud Martha" was published in what year?

1960

1972

1950

1937

Gwendolyn Brooks died in December of 2000 in Chicago, IL.

True

False

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