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Literature Questions on Maya Angelou Life and Works

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We have penned down important questions on American poet Maya Angelou life and works. Maya Angelou questions are important for literature exams. These questions will help you to prepare English literature and English poetry.

Q1: When was Maya Angelou born?

Answer: Maya Angelou was born on April 4th, 1928.

Q2: Where was Maya Angelou born?

Answer: She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Q3: Who called her “America’s most visible black female autobiographer”?

Answer: Scholar Joanne M. Baxton

Q4: Maya Angelou is best known for which kind of work?

Answer: She is known for her series of six autobiographical volumes.

Q5: What is the focus of her autobiographical volumes?

Answer: Her childhood and adult experiences.

Q6: Which autobiography gave her more fame?

Answer:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (1969) that tells the story of her first seventeen years. It brought her international recognition and she was nominated for a National Book Award.

Q7: Maya Angelou was nominated for Pulitzer Prize for which work?

Answer: She was nominated in Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry.

Q8: In 1950,s Angelou was part of which organization?

Answer: She was part of the Harlem Writers Guild is an organization of African-American writers.

Q9: Angelou spoke at a President’s inauguration, what was his name?

Answer: Bill Clinton

Q10: What poem Angelou spoke on President’s inauguration?

Answer: On the Pulse of Morning

Q11: Who asked Angelou to organize a march?

Answer: Martin Luther King in 1968 asked Angelou to organize a March but he was assassinated.

Q12: In which town Angelou spent her early childhood?

Answer: Stamps, Alabama

Q13: At the age of twelve, Angelou graduated from which school?

Answer: Lafayette County Training School

Q14: Angelou is raped by her mother’s boyfriend a the age of 8 , what was his name?

Answer: Mr.Freeman, later was found dead

Q15: “Too Proud to bend, Too Poor to break”, where these lines are from?

Answer: From the poem “When I Think About Myself”

Q16: “But I Was not born to be a worked out slave”, is the line from which poem?

Answer: One More Round

Q17: Which book of Maya Angelou is highly criticized by parents?

Answer: The book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” has been criticized by many parents and it was removed from many school libraries.

Q18: Why people demanded to ban ” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ” ?

Answer: Because of the depiction of lesbianism, premarital cohabitation, pornography, sexually explicit scenes and violence. It became one of the 10 books that were frequently banned from high schools libraries and classrooms.

Q19: How American Library Association ranked this book?

Answer: The book appeared third on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000.

Q20: Apart from American Libray Association, on whose list I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings became a most challenged book?

Answer: It was fifth on the ALA’s list of the ten most challenged books of the 21st century.

Q21: What is the birth name of Maya Angelou?

Answer: Marguerite Annie Johnson

Q22: When did Angelou met the novelist John Oliver Killer?

Answer: In 1959 and he urged her to concentrate on her writings.

Q23: What is the name of the movie, that Angelou directed?

Answer: Down in the Delta in 1996.

Q24: After whose inauguration Angelou stated as “We are growing up beyond the idiocies of racism and sexism”?

Answer: After the inauguration of Barack Obama

Q25: Which work Angelou published at the age of 85?

Answer: She published the seventh volume of autobiography in her series, entitled Mom & Me & Mom, which focuses on her relationship with her mother. (wiki)

Q26: When did Maya Angelou die?

Answer: She died on May 28, 2014 in North Carolina, U.S.

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