This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Harding and Coolidge mainly focused on A) The economy. B) Social reform. C) Child labor. D) Farm prices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The economy. 2. True or False:The KKK allied with Marcus Garvey. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Who wrote the novel about migrant workers during the 1930's? A) Aaron Copland. B) Jacob Lawrence. C) F. Scott Fitzgerald. D) John Steinbeck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Steinbeck. 4. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were all a part of the A) Central Powers. B) Allied Powers. C) Axis Powers. D) Neutral Powers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central Powers. 5. Why did African Americans migrate from the south to harlem? A) To sell goods. B) Get closer to canada. C) Escape jim crow laws. D) Sports. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Escape jim crow laws. 6. What instrument did Duke Ellington play? A) Clarinet. B) Drums. C) Piano. D) Saxophone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Piano. 7. Who wrote "What a Wonderful World" A) Duke Ellington. B) Fats Waller. C) Jelly Roll Morton. D) Louis Armstrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Louis Armstrong. 8. What is the main content of the passage'? A) An overview of recent events. B) A detailed analysis of a specific topic. C) A summary of key points. D) No information to summarize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A detailed analysis of a specific topic. 9. Read the excerpt from Brown v. Board of Education. They are premised on different facts and different local conditions, but a common legal question justifies their consideration together in this consolidated opinion. Based on this excerpt, The Supreme Court chose to consider the case due to ..... A) The wide variety of facts presented to them. B) A legal issue shared by a number of cases. C) A concern about the treatment of citizens. D) The condition of schools in remote localities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A legal issue shared by a number of cases. 10. "My mom told me a million times to clean my room" is an example of: A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 11. Where did Jazz first emerge? A) The South in New Orleans. B) The North in New York. C) Virginia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The South in New Orleans. 12. Which major event did Jacob Lawrence capture in his paintings? A) Great Migration. B) Prohibition. C) Great Schism. D) Jazz Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Migration. 13. The Harlem Renaissance did all of the following except ..... A) Influenced modern music. B) Led to a wider acceptance of black American art. C) Gave the country a platform to discuss race. D) Supported the black nationalist movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Supported the black nationalist movement. 14. How does the singer emphasize the line "We'll just keep our hearts aglow" ? A) By decreasing the volume of the sentence. B) By speeding the sentence up. C) By slowing the sentence down. D) By increasing the volume of the sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By speeding the sentence up. 15. Which actor paved the way for other African Americans? A) Evelyn Preer. B) Adelaide Hall. C) Charles Gilpin. D) Paul Robeson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paul Robeson. 16. "to assign someone to a powerless or unimportant position within a society or group" A) Offend. B) Adulate. C) Marginalize. D) Reign. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marginalize. 17. Read these sentences from Passage 1. "What led to this remarkable explosion of art and culture? The answer took root in the early1900s, when hundreds of thousands of African Americans participated in what is now knownas the Great Migration." (paragraph 2)Which words mean the same as explosion in the context of these sentences? A) Emotional outburst. B) Devastating outbreak. C) Rapid spread. D) Financial success. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rapid spread. 18. The title of "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" emphasizes the poem's theme concerning A) Stolen identities. B) Farming techniques. C) Psychological problems. D) Racial issues. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Racial issues. 19. Which of the following lists details that are present in both passages? A) Jazz, the "New Negro Movement, " Harlem Renaissance. B) Poetry, Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration. C) Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, racial injustice. D) Harlem Renaissance, World War II, the Great Depression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, racial injustice. 20. Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil to play what instrument? A) Banjo. B) Trumpet. C) Piano. D) Guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Guitar. 21. Private clubs where alcohol was illegally consumed A) Speakeasies. B) Bootlegs. C) Bar. D) Saloons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speakeasies. 22. Read this line from "Harlem." Or does it explode? Read this line from "The Weary Blues." Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. What sense do both of these lines rely on? A) The sense of touch. B) The sense of smell. C) The sense of hearing. D) The sense of sight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sense of hearing. 23. The poem, "The Heart of Woman, " shows the highs and lows woman face in life. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 24. Given in great amounts, or more than necessary A) Timeless. B) Lavish. C) Cast. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lavish. 25. When the speaker talks of "a little tent pitched in a meadow", he means that A) People have the right to do what they want. B) People do better living by themselves. C) People cannot survive all alone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People cannot survive all alone. 26. You will form your own thesis A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. Which cultural movement was most associated with the expansion of African American literature, economic independence, music, and art in New York City in the 1920s? A) The Great Migration. B) The Harlem Renaissance. C) Tin Pan Alley. D) The Progressive Era. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Harlem Renaissance. 28. In 1900 most African Americans were ..... A) Slaves. B) Farmers. C) Gangstas. D) Indentured servants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farmers. 29. How would you describe a flapper A) Bootlegger, criminal. B) Short hair, makeup, revealing cloths. C) Long dresses, conservative, debutant. D) Rich, wore expensive clothing, highly educated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short hair, makeup, revealing cloths. 30. The Pilgrims and the Puritans came from A) America. B) England. C) Ireland. D) A variety of countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England. 31. Langston Hughes attempted to start his own magazine in 1926. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. "I came on a slave ship, enslaved / from the cradle to the grave / For too many generations / until the Emancipation free a nation from the plantations." A) Hip Hop. B) Harlem Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hip Hop. 33. Famous artist during the Harlem Renaissance that used his art to bring attention to racism and segregation A) Jacob Lawrence. B) Aaron Douglas. C) Georgia O'Keeffe. D) James Van der Zee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aaron Douglas. 34. ..... is a famous Harlem poet. A) Jim Crow. B) Jellyroll Morton. C) Langston Hughes. D) Louis Armstrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Langston Hughes. 35. Why was Harlem viewed as the starting point of the modern black artistic movement? A) New York had lots of people who worked in factories. B) New York was the publishing and writing center, and home to most of the significant museums and galleries, and site of major music venues. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New York was the publishing and writing center, and home to most of the significant museums and galleries, and site of major music venues. 36. How many stanzas does the following excerpt have? The sky was litby the splendor of the moon So powerfulI fell to the ground A) Two. B) One. C) Seventeen. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two. 37. Puritans wanted to ..... the church. A) Purify. B) Join. C) Separate from. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purify. 38. What is a system that keeps diverse groups separate from each other. A) Gimmick. B) Discrimination. C) Heritage. D) Segregation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Segregation. 39. According to the speaker in "I, Too, " what does the darker brother do when sent to the kitchen? A) Grows strong. B) Feels beautiful. C) Waits for tomorrow. D) Finds company. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grows strong. 40. What does tempo mean? A) How fast or slow the music is. B) How the sounds or words show feeling. C) Compares two or more unlike things without using like or as. D) How loud the music is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How fast or slow the music is. 41. Who is the most famous jazz singer from the Harlem Renaissance known as "Lady Day?" A) Billie Holiday. B) Louis Armstrong. C) Fletcher Henderson. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Billie Holiday. 42. Who does the speaker represent in "A Black Man Talks of Reaping?" A) Black Americans living in the beginning of the 20th century. B) The human race. C) The present-day farmers in the 1920s. D) The Harlem youth of the 1920s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Black Americans living in the beginning of the 20th century. 43. Langston Hughes grandmother, Mary Hughes was A) The first black woman to become published. B) The first black woman to graduate college. C) The first black woman to attend Oberlin College. D) The first black female writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The first black woman to attend Oberlin College. 44. The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of ..... A) African American culture. B) People getting jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) African American culture. 45. Commercials usually have ..... to their products because they seldom work exactly as they did on the advertisement. A) A gimmick. B) Diversity. C) Defiance. D) A recruitment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A gimmick. 46. At what age did Hurston notice she was colored? A) Since she was born. B) 14. C) 13. D) 17. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 13. 47. Who developed the new political theory A) Louis Armstrong. B) Langston Hughes. C) Alain Locke. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alain Locke. 48. Where Were Jim Crow Laws Mainly Used? A) Eastern Shore. B) South. C) North. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) South. 49. Which poem contains the message:despite challenges, it is possible to achieve one's dreams A) "A Rose that Grew from Concrete". B) "Harlem". C) "Let America be America Again". D) "If We Must Die". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "A Rose that Grew from Concrete". 50. The end product is a A) Presentation. B) A 5-6 page paper. C) A class performance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A 5-6 page paper. 51. Why was the decade of the 1920s referred to as the "Roaring 20s" ? A) Because there was a big wildfire that roared through California. B) Because the Ringling Bros. circus was started and their lions roared a lot. C) Because the sound of airplanes fighting in WWI roared in the skies of America. D) Because the economy was "roaring" after WWI and Americans were able to afford more luxuries (movies, cars, radios, etc). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because the economy was "roaring" after WWI and Americans were able to afford more luxuries (movies, cars, radios, etc). 52. For some, Ethiopia, represents the Harlem Renaissance. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 53. How did the Harlem Renaissance lead to the Civil Rights Movement? A) The Civil Right movement was before the Harlem Renaissance. B) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lived in Harlem and decided to start the Civil Rights Movement because the liked the music of the time. C) The literature, art and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance was inspirational to African Americans. D) The themes of identity, freedom and perseverance portrayed in Harlem Renaissance works motivated African Americans and other activists to demand more respect for black people from their own government. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The themes of identity, freedom and perseverance portrayed in Harlem Renaissance works motivated African Americans and other activists to demand more respect for black people from their own government. 54. The point of James VanDerZee's art was to highlight what? A) White politicians corruption. B) African Americans in WWI. C) The growing black middle class. D) Jim Crow South. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The growing black middle class. 55. This man was known as the Father of the Harlem Renaissance. He found African-American artists who did work that was inspired by African-American culture and he published their work. He introduced talented black people to other talented black people so the could form a network and support each other. Who was he? A) James Brown. B) Langston Hughes. C) Duke Ellington. D) Alain Locke. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alain Locke. 56. All of the following are traits of the Harlem Renaissance EXCEPT A) Racial Pride. B) Urban LIfe. C) Identity. D) Inspiration in nature. E) Intellectualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inspiration in nature. 57. As the Great Migration of African Americans made its way north, New York City's Harlem neighborhood became a vibrant hotspot for musicians, writers, entertainers and thinkers. The collection of talent, all within a few city blocks, became known as the Harlem Renaissance. Lasting between the late 1910s and the mid-1930s, the influence of the time is still felt today. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. The first line of poetry of a rhyming poem is always given which letter? A) C. B) A. C) B. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. 59. What is the tone of Bontemps' poem "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" ? A) Compassionate. B) Hopeful. C) Greedy. D) Bitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bitter. 60. Who was nicknamed 'The Lady of the Song'? A) Billie Holiday. B) Nina Simone. C) Ella Fitzgerald. D) Bessie Smith. 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