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Know About Maya Angelou!

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1 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya Angelou was born in the year ________.


1900

1919

1928

2 Question
30 seconds
Q.

From _________, she changed her name to Maya Angelou as her professional name.


Agatha Christie

Marguerite Annie Johnson

Annie Mary

3 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Which of the following American novelist inspired Maya Angelou to write?


John Oliver Killens

Ernest Hemingway

John Steinbeck

4 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya Angelou published her first autobiography __________ in 1969.


Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie

A Brave and Startling Truth

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

5 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya published how many autobiographies?


Five

Seven

Eleven

6 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya Angelou wrote "Gather Together in My Name" based on _______.


Her late teens

Her experience with her grandmother

How she learned to write

7 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Angelou moved to Cairo, Egypt, and worked at a small radical newspaper in the year ______.


1960

1958

1961

8 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya Angelou was only ____ years old when she started to write her 5th book.


33

23

13

9 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Angelou became mute for over _______ years due to the death of Freeman who sexually abused her.


Two

Four

Five

10 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya recited her poem __________ at the first inauguration of former US President Bill Clinton in 1993.


On the Pulse of Morning

Letter to My Daughter

Phenomenal Woman

11 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya works have been regarded as a protection of the ________ culture.


Indian

Anglo-Indian

African-American

12 Question
30 seconds
Q.

It was Maya Angelou who was the first black woman to operate a streetcar.


True

False

13 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Which of Maya's friends died on her birthday?


Barack Obama

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rosa Guy

14 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya received the award for _________ from the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials.


Women Who Move the Nation

Marian Anderson Award

Langston Hughes Medal

15 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya wrote her first screenplay for a 1972 Swedish-American drama film.


Down in the Delta

Georgia, Georgia

Sisters In Cinema

16 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya Angelou wrote ______ poems.


100

153

167

17 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya learned how to dance like a pro when she got married to a Greek carpenter named __________.


Tosh Angelos

Vusumzi L. Make

Paul du Feu

18 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Maya Angelou’s work as a speaker lasted almost two decades.


True

False

19 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Former President Barack Obama appreciated Maya Angelou by awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in _______.


2000

2009

2011

20 Question
30 seconds
Q.

________ is the seventh and final book of Maya’s series of autobiographies.


And Still, I Rise

Mom & Me & Mom

Even the Stars Look Lonesome

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