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1
According to Brooks (see Perkins), "Anything I write is going to issue from a concern with and an interest in
A)education and the nation's political health."
B)the promises of faith."
C)blackness and its progress."
D)poverty and disenfranchisement."
2
Gwendolyn Brooks' first published work was
A)A Street in Bronzeville
B)Annie Allen
C)The Bean Eaters
D)In the Mecca
3
Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American woman to receive a
A)Nobel Prize
B)Pulitzer Prize
C)National Academy of the Arts Gold Medal
D)Caldecott Award for Children's Literature
4
On a visit to Fisk University in 1967, Brooks claims she discovered that there was
A)little opportunity for women writers
B)a welcome place for a "lady poet" of fifty
C)a new interest in poetry among the youth
D)a New Black to meet
5
From the beginning of her work, Brooks' primary subject was
A)animals
B)the black urban poor
C)old people
D)racism







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