Q 01/05

Lorraine Hansberry took the title A Raisin in the Sun from the poem Harlem by which writer?

A) Gwendolyn Brooks

B) Langston Hughes

C) Countee Cullen

D) Claude McKay

Answer · why

B) Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was a guest in the Hansberry family home when Lorraine was a child. Duke Ellington and Jesse Owens were among the other famous visitor...

Q 02/05

Which singer wrote the song To Be Young, Gifted and Black in memory of her friend Lorraine Hansberry?

A) Aretha Franklin

B) Roberta Flack

C) Lena Horne

D) Nina Simone

Answer · why

D) Nina Simone

Nina Simone took the title from a speech Hansberry gave to young writers in 1964. Hansberry was also godmother to the singer's daughter, Lisa.

Q 03/05

Which actor played Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway and on film?

A) Sidney Poitier

B) Harry Belafonte

C) Brock Peters

D) James Earl Jones

Answer · why

A) Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier jumped into the audience on opening night in 1959 and pulled the playwright onto the stage when the crowd called for the author. He rep...

Q 04/05

Lorraine Hansberry's father fought what in a 1940 US Supreme Court case over the family's Chicago home?

A) A school segregation order

B) A city demolition order

C) A whites-only covenant

D) A discriminatory bank loan

Answer · why

C) A whites-only covenant

A whites-only covenant barred Black buyers from part of the South Side, and a mob threw a brick through the window that narrowly missed young Lorraine...

Q 05/05

John Fiedler, the only white actor in A Raisin in the Sun's 1959 cast, later voiced which Winnie the Pooh character?

A) Tigger

B) Piglet

C) Eeyore

D) Rabbit

Answer · why

B) Piglet

Piglet spoke with John Fiedler's voice from the 1960s until 2005, after Walt Disney heard him on television. In Lorraine Hansberry's play he was the m...