August Wilson

Which of these is NOT a play connection for "the Blues"?

• Lyons (Troy's son) is a musician

• The Blues are deeply rooted in African American culture and history

• The characters in Wilson's plays each speak part of the melody

• Troy was a blues musician.

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Romare Bearden's work inspired August Wilson through...

• black life presented on its own terms

• poetry aimed at African Americans

• ghosts, magical elements

• black lives matter movement

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It is most likely that August Wilson was inspired by Baraka's...

• paintings

• college career

• magical realism

• radical, political ideas

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Which best charactarizes Wilson's education?

• Ivy league college experience helped him to find a community

• dropped out of high school early on; educated himself

• home schooled due to Jim Crow laws and racism

• went to college on a football scholarship

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Wilson's Pittsburg Cycle consisted of...

• his plays being performed on various stages in Pittsburg throughout the 20th century

• his time in Pittsburg as a theater director

• 10 plays, each set in a decade of the 20th century, and all set in Pittsburg

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"The Pittsburgh Cycle" is a series of ten plays written by

• Troy Maxson

• Denzel Washington

• Eugene O'Neill

• August Wilson

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This cycle of plays includes decades from

• 1900-1920

• 1900-1950

• 1900-1990

• 1900-2010

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"Fences" is one of two Wilson plays that won

• the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

• the Oscar for Best Play.

• an Emmy for Best Play.

• the Nobel Prize for Drama.

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The setting of "Fences" is

• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1950s

• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1960s

• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1970s

• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1980s

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The overarching theme of Wilson's ten plays spanning his "Pittsburgh Cycle" is 

• the Harlem Renaissance

• the evolving African-American experience

• the Civil Rights Movement

• the Black Panthers movement

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