Q 01/05

In which year was Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston's most popular novel, published?

A) 1937

B) 1939

C) 1942

D) 1948

Answer · why

A) 1937

Time later named it one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923.

Q 02/05

In which Alabama town was Hurston born in 1891?

A) Selma

B) Tuskegee

C) Notasulga

D) Eufaula

Answer · why

C) Notasulga

Its name comes from Creek words meaning many teeth; her father's family came from there.

Q 03/05

Eatonville, where Hurston grew up, was incorporated as an all-Black town in which year?

A) 1865

B) 1872

C) 1880

D) 1887

Answer · why

D) 1887

It was one of the first such towns in the US; Hurston sometimes claimed it as her birthplace.

Q 04/05

What office did Hurston's father John win in Eatonville in 1897?

A) Sheriff

B) Mayor

C) Postmaster

D) School superintendent

Answer · why

B) Mayor

A Baptist preacher, he later led the town's largest church, Macedonia Missionary Baptist.

Q 05/05

Hurston was the fifth of how many children?

A) Six

B) Four

C) Eight

D) Eleven

Answer · why

C) Eight

All four of her grandparents had been born into slavery; her mother was a schoolteacher.