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?
Notasulga, AL, where she moved too 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?
hpustom grew up in a world she family had money they lived good
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 was 26 and still didnt finish high school, so she had to take 10 years out of her life because she was too
old.
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?

1887, three Union officers, Captain Josiah Eaton, Captain Lewis Lawrence and another officer who is
unknown.

5. Who was it named after?

Josiah eaton

6. What is significant about Eatonville and African-American history?

The Indians had stolen the black slaves from many states along the coast. Over time, many of the Indians and
former slaves that did not move west, stayed in Central Florida.

7. What kind of achievements is Hurston noted for?

Folklorist, Anthropologist

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

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

the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World
War I

9. When and where did it occur?

1920s and 1930s , The Harlem section of Manhattan,

10. Who were some of the key participants?

Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer
11. Use Google to look up when (and how) Zora Neale Hurston died.
January 28, 1960 (aged 69)
Fort Pierce, Florida, U.S.
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.
different whites talking to blacks in any language and words

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?
Because she didnt really care that they were segregated because she then the people can get into their own

15. According to Hurston, what role should cultural forms play in the writing of African Americans?
for the black people stick to blacks and the other races do what they want to do

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 the black culture
17. According to the article, why was it problematic?
Because it was about criticism
18. How have African-Americans historically dealt with oppression and self-identity in this country? Offer some
reasons why. We'll show how the oppression of Black people has been at the very heart of the fabric and ...
throughout the history of this country, and continuing today