Name Date Cultural Literacy Worksheet: Zora Neale Hurston. Cultural literacy is familiarity with and ability to understand the idioms, allusions, and informal content that create and constitute a culture. Here is a short reading from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Hirsch, E.D., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Please answer the accompanying questions.Zora Neale Hurston: Twentieth-century African-American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. A member of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston is also known for her collection of African-American lore, Of Mules and Men.

1. Who is Zora Neale Hurston? When did she live? What were her academic specialties? For what is she best known?

2. Of what was Zora Neale Hurston a member?

3. For what is Zora Neale Hurston also known?

Name Date Cultural Literacy Worksheet: Zora Neale Hurston. Cultural literacy is familiarity with and ability to understand the idioms, allusions, and informal content that create and constitute a culture. Here is a short reading from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Hirsch, E.D., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Please answer the accompanying questions.Zora Neale Hurston: Twentieth-century African-American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. A member of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston is also known for her collection of African-American lore, Of Mules and Men.

1. Who is Zora Neale Hurston? When did she live? What were her academic specialties? For what is she best known?

2. Of what was Zora Neale Hurston a member?

3. For what is Zora Neale Hurston also known?