Ethiopia Awakening

Question 0

Wha was the size of the painted plaster version of Ethiopia Awakening?

Answer 0

67 inches

Question 1

What are the sculpture in Thiopia Awakening’s feet bound in?

Answer 1

The funerary dressings of an ancient Egyptian Wueen

Question 2

What are characteristics of African and African-American physiognomy?

Answer 2

Full lips and a broad nose

Question 3

What is the difference between the upper and lower half of Ethiopia Awakening?

Answer 3

The lower half is static and the upper is able to move freely

Question 4

Where was one of Fuller’s sculptures shown in 1893?

Answer 4

At the Columbian Exposition in Chicago

Question 5

Where did Fuller move to after being supported by a scholorship?

Answer 5

pHILADELPHIA

Question 6

Where did Fuller study art in Philadelphia

Answer 6

Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Arts

Question 7

Who did Fuller come to know in Paris, France?

Answer 7

W.E.B. DuBois and Henry Ossawa Tanner

Question 8

Who mentored Meta Warrick Fuller?

Answer 8

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Question 9

Who praised Fuller for her expressionistic style of work?

Answer 9

French sculptor Auguste Rodin

Question 10

What school did Fuller attend while in Paris?

Answer 10

Academie Colarossi

Question 11

When did Fuller return to Philadelphia?

Answer 11

In 1902

Question 12

What did Fuller receive a federal commission to design a sculpture for in 1907?

Answer 12

The Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition

Question 13

Why is Fuller’s federal commission to design a sculpture for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition important?

Answer 13

Because it marked the first time that the United States government had contracted with an African-American woman to create a work of art

Question 14

What subject did Fuller turn her attention to in the years leading up to World War One?

Answer 14

The subject of African-American identity in the United States

Question 15

What were Fuller’s political works from during and before the war?

Answer 15

Emancipation, Mary Turner and Ethiopia Awakening

Question 16

Who did Fuller marry?

Answer 16

A prominent psychiatrists

Question 17

What movement does Fuller anticipate with Ethiopia Awakening?

Answer 17

The Harlem Renaissance although Fuller never lived in Harlem

Question 18

Who encouraged a strong African-American identity that paid homage to African roots and recognized the complex identities or double-consciousness of Africa American peoples?

Answer 18

uBois

Question 19

Who requested that Fuller create a version of Ethiopia Awakening for the 1921 America’s Making?

Answer 19

W.E.B. DeBois

Question 20

What was the symbol of Ethiopia in Ethiopia Awakening?

Answer 20

A Christian country that resisted European colonial rule, held up a symbol of strength and liberty and a term for the African continent

Question 21

Who supported the 1921 America’s Making Exposition?

Answer 21

Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and the Carnegie Foundation

Question 22

What status were African Americans granted for the America’s Making Exposition?

Answer 22

Honorary immigrants

Question 23

What poet along with DuBois organized a pavilion for African Americans?

Answer 23

James Weldon Johnson

Question 24

How many African-Americans volunteered for military service during the war?

Answer 24

350,000 to 400,000