This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 22 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. He made jazz music popular with all people A) Duke Ellington. B) W.E.B. DuBois. C) James Weldon Johnson. D) Roman Bearden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Duke Ellington. 2. Which answer best explains the goal of the Harlem Renaissance? A) The goal of the Harlem Renaissance was for African Americans to appreciate their culture and not feel embarrassed to be black. B) The goal of the Harlem Renaissance was for African Americans to assimilate white culture so that they would receive equal rights. C) The goal of the Harlem Renaissance was for African Americans to understand the difference between white and black culture. D) The goal of the Harlem Renaissance was for African Americans to appreciate their culture and return to their homelands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The goal of the Harlem Renaissance was for African Americans to appreciate their culture and not feel embarrassed to be black. 3. What did the Harlem Renaissance focus on? A) All of the above. B) Uplifting Black Americans through cultural and racial pride. C) Exploring new themes such as heritage, racial identity, and equality. D) Bringing awareness to the struggles of Black Americans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of the above. 4. Louis Armstrong was good, but is not considered one of the important jazz musicians in the world. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 5. Which musician is known for their song 'Strange Fruit', credited as the first protest song of the Civil Rights era? A) Ma Rainey. B) Billie Holiday. C) Bessie Smith. D) Duke Ellington. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Billie Holiday. 6. What did the Harlem Renaissance showcase? A) The achievements and contributions of black Americans in various fields. B) The dismantling of voting rights through tactics like literacy tests and the grandfather clause. C) The rise of the Ku Klux Klan. D) The concentration of black intellectuals and artists in Harlem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The achievements and contributions of black Americans in various fields. 7. Tone is the author's ..... A) Shoes. B) Point of view. C) Purpose. D) Attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Attitude. 8. Why was the NAACP created? A) To create full equality among the races. B) To support hate groups such as the KKK. C) The government wanted to enforce labor laws. D) To help poor white men find jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To create full equality among the races. 9. The blacks that came to Harlem created a ..... ; meaning that they revived culture and the arts in the neighborhood. A) Renaissance. B) Mecca. C) Complacency. D) Metamorphosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renaissance. 10. Readers can infer that Mrs. Jones from "Thank you Ma'am" ..... A) Thinks Roger should earn the money for shoes. B) Is able to forgive Roger. C) Wants Roger to visit her often. D) Wants to adopt Roger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is able to forgive Roger. 11. What country was neutral at the beginning of the war? A) United States. B) France. C) Germany. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) United States. 12. Let's start easy ..... where is Harlem? A) California. B) Washington, D.C. C) New York. D) Alabama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New York. 13. Augusta Savage sculpted busts of famous Black people, including W.E.B. Du Bois and political activist Marcus Garvey. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 14. Which of the following granted women in America a 'voice" because it granted them the right to vote? A) 19th Amendment. B) 23th Amendment. C) 15th Amendment. D) 13th Amendment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 19th Amendment. 15. Both "I Hear America Singing" and "I, Too" concern the theme of A) A person's place in society. B) Working hard for a living. C) Race and racial identity. D) Unfair treatment in American society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A person's place in society. 16. "racial discrimination that is openly expressed" A) Indefinite Racism. B) Institutionalized Racism. C) Obscure Racism. D) Overt Racism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Overt Racism. 17. What was the first "Black" play published? A) The Escape. B) Appearances. C) Rachel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Escape. 18. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston believed that African American art should represent the equality of the educated African American with the white educated class. (The talented tenth) A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. What popular nickname was given to the "rebellious females" of 1920? A) Troublemakers. B) Flappers. C) Flippers. D) Floppers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flappers. 20. (US.28) Which factor would have had the LEAST impact in causing the so-called "Great Migration" of African Americans in much of the 20th century? A) The South's relatively poor economy. B) Fewer agricultural jobs in the South. C) More industrial and manufacturing jobs in the North than in the South. D) Jim Crow laws banning African-Americans from most types of employment in the South. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jim Crow laws banning African-Americans from most types of employment in the South. 21. What did John Steinbeck write about? A) The strength of the poor American. B) The rise of capitalism. C) Burning desire from freedom. D) Music and art of the Jazz Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The strength of the poor American. 22. In Countee Cullen's poem "Incident" he talks about the incident he experienced in ..... A) Baltimore. B) Mississippi. C) New York. D) Florida. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baltimore. 23. Which of the following evidence is most relevant to the theme "Hard work pays off" ? A) "And rise with the hour for which you were made" (Johnson 56). B) "Yet there is a reason to hope" (Grimes 5). C) "Well, Robert, that motto you've got up there is a pretty good one to tie to. You certainly have studied; you have made yourself ready as far as your resources will permit" (Lottie 3). D) "The right to make my dreams come true I ask, nay, I demand of life" (Johnson 31). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Well, Robert, that motto you've got up there is a pretty good one to tie to. You certainly have studied; you have made yourself ready as far as your resources will permit" (Lottie 3). 24. What other name was the era called? A) The Jazz Movement. B) The United Negro Movement. C) The New Negro Movement. D) The Harlem Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The New Negro Movement. 25. (US.28) What decade did the Great Migration end? A) 1930s. B) 1940s. C) 1960s. D) 1970s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1970s. 26. Who wrote the book 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'? A) Zora Neale Hurston. B) Langston Hughes. C) Walter White. D) Gwendolyn Bennett. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zora Neale Hurston. 27. Actors/actresses in a play or movie A) Cast. B) Fame. C) Launch. D) International. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cast. 28. Which of the following best reflects the decade of the 1920s? A) Foreign trade prospering after World War I. B) The United States assuming a leadership role in world affairs. C) Political reforms that made government more democratic. D) Widespread social and economic change occurred. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Widespread social and economic change occurred. 29. Someone who looks on or watches (performance or other public event) A) Defiance. B) Spectator. C) Oppression. D) Plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spectator. 30. To attempt to sign one up to your group is to ..... them. A) Impact. B) Recruit. C) Gimmick. D) Taunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recruit. 31. Who are the big names associate with the Harlem Renaissance? A) Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway. B) Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte. C) Shakespeare, Homer. D) Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, W.E.B. DuBois. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, W.E.B. DuBois. 32. Which of the following is NOT a luxurious technology that became affordable to Americans during the 1920s because of the booming economy? A) Computer. B) Airplane. C) Radio. D) Automobile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Computer. 33. The following individuals contributed to the literature, art, and music of the Harlem Renaissance EXCEPT- A) Jacob Laurence. B) Langston Hughes. C) George Gershwin. D) Duke Ellington. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Gershwin. 34. What was Langston Hughes known for? A) Poet. B) Singer. C) Politician. D) Painter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 35. Someone who is in charge of part or all of the university, college or school A) Literary. B) Dean. C) Social order. D) Deferred. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dean. 36. Words that sound like the noises they describe. A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 37. The popular music genre that boomed in the 20's as result of the Harlem Renaissance. A) Jazz. B) Gospel. C) Soul. D) R&B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jazz. 38. Organized crime was on the rise in the 1920s due to this A) Farm prices. B) Prohibition. C) Rising tariffs. D) Child labor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prohibition. 39. What book did Zora Neale Hurston write that expressed longing independence felt by women black and white. A) I, Too. B) Their Eyes Were Watching God. C) The Red Summer of 1919. D) It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their Eyes Were Watching God. 40. Which was not a cause of WW1? A) Imperialism. B) Militarism. C) Isolationism. D) Nationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Isolationism. 41. African Americans migrated to northern cities to take advantage of the many factory jobs, but still faced A) Discrimination. B) Wealth and happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discrimination. 42. Which of the following people were known for their musical talent? A) Langston Hughes. B) Louis Armstrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Louis Armstrong. 43. A concept, coined by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1903, that describes a minority individual feeling as though their identity is divided into several parts, making it difficult or impossible to have one unified identity, because of a prejudiced society. A) The Great Migration. B) Louis Armstrong. C) Double consciousness. D) Harlem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Double consciousness. 44. What is it when you are the highest level of degree A) Onset. B) Advent. C) Prominence. D) Pinnacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pinnacle. 45. Oscar Micheaux was the first African American ..... to feature blacks in prominent roles, and show slave life as it really was. A) Writer. B) Film maker. C) Poet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Film maker. 46. This international activist performed in "The Emperor Jones" and "Othello" A) Countee Cullen. B) Paul Robeson. C) Zora Neale Hurston. D) Fats Waller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paul Robeson. 47. What was the name of the influential art publication that showcased the works of African-American artists during the Harlem Renaissance? A) The Gazette. B) The Crisis. C) The Bulletin. D) The Chronicles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Crisis. 48. The Harlem Renaissance refers to:El Renacimiento de Harlem se refiere a: A) A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture. B) A struggle for civil rights by the NAACPUna lucha por los derechos civiles de la NAACP. C) A population increase in Harlem during the 1920s. D) A program to promote African-American owned businesses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture. 49. In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court determined A) Segregated train cars were illegal and blacks could sit next to any race they wanted. B) Segregated train cars and other facilities were legal as long as they were "separate but equal". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Segregated train cars and other facilities were legal as long as they were "separate but equal". 50. The Harlem Renaissance is A) A literary and artistic movement that celebrates African American culture. B) A program to promote African American owned businesses. C) A struggle for civil rights for African Americans by the NAACP. D) A population increase in Harlem during the early 20th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A literary and artistic movement that celebrates African American culture. 51. What was the name given to secret bars where people acquired alcohol illegally? A) Top Secret Bars. B) Speakeasies. C) Quiet Places. D) Secret Saloons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speakeasies. 52. Members of a Jazz band have to play as a ..... and be aware of what the other band members are doing. A) Team. B) Rude person. C) Group who doesn't like each other. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Team. 53. Which leader wanted the integration of blacks and whites with equal rights for all? A) Booker T. Washington. B) Marcus Garvey. C) W.E.B. Du Bois. D) Duke Ellington. E) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) W.E.B. Du Bois. 54. What types of creative expression were popular during the Harlem Renaissance? A) Pop music, dance, and film. B) Jazz music, literature, and visual arts. C) Opera, poetry, and photography. D) Baroque music, sculpture, and theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jazz music, literature, and visual arts. 55. What makes the Harlem Renaissance special? A) African American authors and artists. B) African American authors, artists, musicians, and novelists. C) None of these are correct. D) Native American novelists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) African American authors, artists, musicians, and novelists. 56. (US.33) The Harlem Renaissance began in A) 1920. B) 1921. C) 1929. D) 1924. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1924. 57. (US.33) The Harlem Renaissance ended in A) 1921. B) 1924. C) 1920. D) 1929. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1929. 58. What is relevant evidence? A) Evidence/proof that is not connected to the main idea. B) Evidence/proof not related to the claim. C) Evidence/proof related to the counterclaim. D) Evidence/proof related to the claim being made. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evidence/proof related to the claim being made. 59. Who was a poet during this time? A) Langston Hughes. B) W.E.B. DuBois. C) Jelly Roll Norton. D) Paul Robeson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Langston Hughes. 60. White patrons, black performers A) Savoy Ballroom. B) Apollo Theater. C) Cotton Club. D) Rent parties. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cotton Club. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesHarlem Renaissance Quiz 1Harlem Renaissance Quiz 2Harlem Renaissance Quiz 3Harlem Renaissance Quiz 4Harlem Renaissance Quiz 5Harlem Renaissance Quiz 6Harlem Renaissance Quiz 7Harlem Renaissance Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books