For each quotation, give the full name of the author of the work. The interactive answer component of this quiz will recognize only the complete name in its usual form ("F. Scott Fitzgerald," not "F. S. Fitzgerald" or "Fitzgerald"). After two tries, the question will become multiple choice.
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I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind,
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
Robert Frost
Zora Neale Hurston
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
I remember the very day that I became colored.
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
T. S. Eliot
Deep in the festering hold thy father lies, of his bones New England pews are made, those are altar lights that were his eyes.
Robert Hayden
Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
Halfway between her house and the quarters she met her husband's mother, and after a short talk she turned and went back home. Never would she admit defeat to that woman who prayed for it nightly. If she had not the substance of marriage she had the outside show. [He] must leave her.
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
T. S. Eliot
Robert Hayden
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
Ezra Pound
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. Eliot
Robert Hayden
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me.
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Robert Frost
I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Robert Hayden
T. S. Eliot
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records--Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn't make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races.
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Robert Frost
T. S. Eliot
Exploring hands encounter no defence; His vanity requires no response, And makes a welcome of indifference. (And I Tiresias have foresuffered all Enacted on this same divan or bed; I who have sat by Thebes below the wall And walked among the lowest of the dead.) Bestows one final patronising kiss, And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit. . .
T. S. Eliot
Sophocles
Ezra Pound
Zora Neale Hurston
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