Q 01/05

Alice Walker was born in 1944 in which US state?

A) Mississippi

B) Georgia

C) Alabama

D) Louisiana

Answer · why

B) Georgia

Her parents were sharecroppers in the rural farming town of Eatonton.

Q 02/05

How did the eight-year-old Alice Walker lose the sight in her right eye?

A) A farm tool accident

B) A brother's BB gun

C) A bout of measles

D) A car crash

Answer · why

B) A brother's BB gun

With no car to reach a doctor, the injury went untreated; she turned to reading and writing afterwards.

Q 03/05

From which college did Alice Walker graduate in 1965?

A) Mount Holyoke

B) Sarah Lawrence

C) Bryn Mawr

D) Wellesley

Answer · why

B) Sarah Lawrence

She transferred there from Spelman after her mentor Howard Zinn was fired.

Q 04/05

At which historically Black women's college did Walker study before transferring?

A) Morehouse

B) Spelman

C) Emory

D) Clark Atlanta

Answer · why

B) Spelman

Georgia gave her a full scholarship as her high school's valedictorian.

Q 05/05

What was the title of Alice Walker's first book, a 1968 poetry collection?

A) Revolutionary Petunias

B) Once

C) Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

D) Goodnight, Willie Lee

Answer · why

B) Once

She slipped the poems under the office door of her professor, poet Muriel Rukeyser.