A) Atlantic
B) Motown
C) Sun
D) Chess

(10) She was the first black performer to win an Oscar for her controversial role as Mammy in the epic film “Gone With the Wind.”

A) Hattie McDaniel
B) Cicely Tyson
C) Eddie Rochester Anderson
D) Leslie Uggams

(1) Called “Poet Laureate of Harlem,”
he rose to
prominence during
the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

A) Richard Wright
B) Ernest Gaines
C) James Weldon Johnson
D) Langston Hughes

(8) Ailing
comedian who co-starred in “Silver Streak” and “Harlem Nights” and won Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.

A) Redd Foxx
B) Chris Rock
C) Richard Pryor
D) Eddie Murphy

(2) This hip-hop innovator who started her career as the lead singer of the Fugees won five Grammy Awards in 1999 for her solo work.

A) Lauryn Hill
B) Lil’ Kim
C) Whitney Houston
D) Queen Latifah

(7) The artist and professor is known for her “story quilts,” including “Tar Beach,” which shows a child soaring through the clouds over Harlem.

A) Faith Ringgold
B) Betye Saar
C) Margaret Burroughs
D) Elizabeth Catlett

(3) This playwright and civil rights activist won two Pulitzer Prizes, for “Fences” in 1986 and “The Piano Lesson” in 1990.

A) Charles Fuller
B) August Wilson
C) Alice Childress
D) Langston Hughes

(6) He photo-graphed for Life magazine, authored about a dozen books and directed several motion pictures, including 1971’s “Shaft.”

A) Bill Cosby
B) Gordon Parks
C) Robert Townsend
D) Sidney Poitier

(5) Born in St. Louis, she danced her way across the United States, then moved to France and became the toast of Paris.

A) Lena Horne
B) Melba Moore
C) Josephine Baker
D) Leslie Uggams

(4) Since her start in TV news in Nashville, she’s built a media empire that includes a TV show, a magazine and movies.

A) Cicely Tyson
B) Ruby Dee
C) Diahann Carroll
D) Oprah Winfrey