Directions: Use the websites provided to find the answers for this Web Quest.

Put your answers on a

sheet of paper.

1. When and where was Zora Neale Hurston born? Where did she move as a young girl?
Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in notasulga, Alabama Hurston moved with her family to Eatonville
Florida
http://zoranealehurston.com/about/index.html

2. Given your knowledge of the time and place, what kind of world did Hurston grow up in?
I think Hurston grew up in a really good time her dad had a good job they had a huge house she always got
what she wanted
http://zoranealehurston.com/about/index.html

3. What was the extent of Hurstons education? Considering her gender and color, does this surprise you?
Explain. She had to take 10 years out her life because she was way too old by law to go back to school

http://zoranealehurston.com/about/index.html

Go to the following site for Eatonville, Florida http://townofeatonville.com/

4. When, and by whom, was Eatonville founded?

Captain Josiah Eaton, Captain Lewis Lawrence and another officer who is unknown following the civil way
5. Who was it named after?
it was named after captain Josiah Eaton
6. What is significant about Eatonville and African-American history?
it became an all-black community where all blacks ran everything
7. What kind of achievements is Hurston noted for? Hurston is noted as the first Black American to collect and
publish African-American and Afro-Caribbean folklore

http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/hurston/hurston.htm

8. Use Google to look up The Harlem Renaissance. What was it?

The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural
identity
9. When and where did it occur?
in the 1920s and 30s in urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States

10. Who were some of the key participants?

James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston Alain Locke, Eric D. Walrond

11. Use Google to look up when (and how) Zora Neale Hurston died.
Hypertensive heart disease
12. Look up a definition of vernacular language. Explain in your own words what the term means and how it
might be applied to the novel we are about to read, which takes place in the Deep South.
a language only certain people for a special group speak on a regular basis
13. Us the following link to explore Hurstons use of Florida as a setting for African American folk life (scroll to
the bottom of page 2 of the document you find there, and read the short article called Scholarly Criticism on
the Use of Florida):

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076693/00001

14. Why was Hurston criticized by other African American writers at the end of her literary career?
She was criticized by other African Americans because she believed we didnt need white people that black
people could do it on their own
15. According to Hurston, what role should cultural forms play in the writing of African Americans?
more influence for black people to stick to themselves and not the white people or another race

Using the same document, scroll down to page 5 to the article Hurston and Hughes: Competing
Public Intellectualism.

16. Explain how Mule Bone was supposed to be an example of real Negro art theatre.
Because they made a play about a black life but added humor to it and romance
17. According to the article, why was it problematic?
Because it brought a lot of criticizesm to Hurston
18. How have African-Americans historically dealt with oppression and self-identity in this country? Offer some
reasons why. By sticking together and not giving up an example is the civil rights movement