This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True or False:Dr. MacNicholl believed that alcohol was harmless to the consumer A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 2. Someone who illegally sold or transported alcohol is a A) Flapper. B) Bootlegger. C) Bartender. D) Bondsman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bootlegger. 3. Duke Ellington was? A) Best jazz player. B) Poet. C) Leader of the cotton club. D) Race car driver. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leader of the cotton club. 4. Who released "Down-hearted Blues" ? A) Jessie Fauset. B) Josephine Baker. C) Bessie Smith. D) Beyonce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bessie Smith. 5. The suffixes "-able" and "-ible" mean ..... A) Unable to be. B) Able to be. C) Without. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Able to be. 6. He collected and edited a collection of short stories, poetry, and essays into the book, The New Negro, one of the most important books to come out of the Harlem Renaissance. A) Langston Hughes. B) James Weldon Johnson. C) Alain Locke. D) Marcus Garvey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alain Locke. 7. What are the two kinds of structured rhyme that can occur in a line of poetry? A) Free verse and open rhyme. B) Free verse and stanza. C) Rhythm and onomatopoeia. D) End rhyme and internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme and internal rhyme. 8. What types of cities did African Americans move to? A) Large Cities. B) Small Towns. C) Rural Areas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Large Cities. 9. What kind of poetry did Countee Cullen write? A) Everyday poetry. B) Formal or fancy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formal or fancy. 10. When Hughes write "Thump, thump, thump", what figure of speech is he employing? A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 11. She ran the Dark Tower, which supported black artists A) Ella Fitzgerald. B) Lena Horne. C) Marian Anderson. D) A'Lelia Walker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A'Lelia Walker. 12. Which of the following did not happen during the fall of the Harlem Renaissance? A) Massive Employment. B) Massive unemployment. C) Riots. D) Several families living in one home. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Massive Employment. 13. WEB du Bois and James Weldon Johnson were members of this organization that focused on African American equality: A) NAACP. B) UNION. C) SNCC. D) SCLC. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NAACP. 14. How does the information in the section titled Writing, Writing, Writing develop the idea that African Americans had suffered years of oppression and segregation? A) Describes life as an African American in the United States. B) Identifies their suffering as the inspiration for the artistic expression. C) Gives reasons why African Americans were segregated and oppressed for so long. D) Tells about the journey African Americans took to the north. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Identifies their suffering as the inspiration for the artistic expression. 15. What does Mrs. Jones give Roger before sending him away in "Thank You Ma'am" ? A) Blue suede shoes. B) Suede jacket. C) Ten dollars. D) Twenty dollars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ten dollars. 16. He was the most popular poet during the Harlem Renaissance time period? A) Louis Armstrong. B) Billie Holiday. C) Langston Hughes. D) DMX. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Langston Hughes. 17. Disillusionment about achieving justice they had been promised led many African Americans to A) Stay in the South and resign themselves to poor treatment. B) Be less likely to speak out against injustice. C) Pursue equality and success more aggressively. D) Leave the US for Africa in large numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pursue equality and success more aggressively. 18. What did African men wear during this time? A) Penguin suit. B) Zoot suits. C) Hazmat suit. D) Tuxedo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zoot suits. 19. Who wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun'? A) Alice Walker. B) Toni Morrison. C) Zora Neale Hurston. D) Lorraine Hansberry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lorraine Hansberry. 20. A short text taken from a longer text is called a(n) A) Timeline. B) Excerpt. C) Credible Source. D) Gist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Excerpt. 21. Famous poet who wrote about the difficult lives of African Americans: A) Langston Hughes. B) Marcus Garvey. C) Paul Robeson. D) Duke Ellington. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Langston Hughes. 22. To confirm or pass something, such as an amendment A) Confirm. B) Pass. C) Vote. D) Ratify. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ratify. 23. What perspective is presented in this section? This Great Migration eventually relocated hundreds of thousands of African-Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North. Many discovered they had shared common experiences in their past histories and their uncertain lives of the present. This time period when African-American culture was reborn in New York City in the 1920s is known as the Harlem Renaissance. A) Migration from the South to the North was a very difficult journey for African-Americans. B) The Harlem Renaissance was an important and positive time. C) New York City was a place many people migrated to in the 1920s. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Harlem Renaissance was an important and positive time. 24. ..... is a famous Harlem painter. A) Aaron Douglas. B) Henry Garvey. C) Zora Hurston. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aaron Douglas. 25. Where is Langston Hughs from? A) Harlem, NY. B) Durham, NC. C) Winston-Salem, NC. D) Joplin, MS. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joplin, MS. 26. Which was a reason for the US joining WWI? A) The US wanted more land. B) Attacks at sea by Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Attacks at sea by Germany. 27. The act of making unfair judgements on someone is called ..... A) Heritage. B) Discrimination. C) Segregation. D) Adrift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discrimination. 28. The reason why the Harlem Renaissance occurred in the first place is because of ..... A) Reestablishment of the Freedman's Bureau. B) Great Migration. C) Colonization of African Americans. D) The passage of the 19th amendment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Great Migration. 29. What is an antonym of "defiant?" A) Cooperate. B) Refuse. C) Challenge. D) Resist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cooperate. 30. During World War I, many African Americans living in the South moved to northern cities primarily because A) The cost of living in the cities was lower. B) More workers were needed in industry. C) Affirmative action programs provided better training opportunities. D) Prejudice had been eliminated in the North. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More workers were needed in industry. 31. This poet's work, entitled "I Hear America Singing, " highlighted the differences between black and white perceptions of America during the 1900's A) Zora Neale Hurston. B) Walt Whitman. C) Langston Hughes. D) Maya Angelou. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walt Whitman. 32. Which sentence best expresses the author's point of view in Passage 2? A) The author criticizes Hughes's jazz rhythms in his poems. B) The author admires Hughes for his contributions to American culture. C) The author disagrees with critics who say that Hughes was the best poet of the HarlemRenaissance. D) The author empathizes with Hughes, sharing his bitterness about U.S. race relations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The author admires Hughes for his contributions to American culture. 33. The Harlem Renaissance was A) A famous movie. B) A rebirth of the arts, created by African Americans in Harlem in the 1920's. C) A political party. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A rebirth of the arts, created by African Americans in Harlem in the 1920's. 34. Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor that led to the Harlem Renaissance? A) The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the cities of the northern United States in search of better opportunities. B) African American men returning from war in Europe with new views about race and more confidence about what they could accomplish. C) A rise in literacy levels among African Americans as educational opportunities opened up dramatically in the decades prior. D) Jim Crow laws in the North that prevented African Americans from joining labor unions or being hired by government agencies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jim Crow laws in the North that prevented African Americans from joining labor unions or being hired by government agencies. 35. The tone of both "From the Dark Tower" and "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" may be described as A) Apologetic. B) Resentful. C) Relieved. D) Sorrowful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resentful. 36. The system of human relationships within a society A) Social order. B) Syncopated. C) Deferred. D) Playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social order. 37. Define Jim Crow laws A) Division of a society based on social and economic status. B) State and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) State and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. 38. Where did the Harlem Renaissance begin? A) Harlem, Georgia. B) Harlem, New York. C) Harlem, Florida. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harlem, New York. 39. Many African Americans moved North because ..... A) They wanted to explore the cities. B) They wanted to escape their slave pasts. C) They wanted jobs in the North. D) They wanted to write great literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They wanted jobs in the North. 40. An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself A) Agency. B) Consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consciousness. 41. "Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, / For weary centuries despised, oppressed, / Enslaved and lynched, denied a human place" A) Harlem Renaissance. B) Hip Hop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harlem Renaissance. 42. Read the excerpt from "Letter from Birmingham Jail." We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. King includes this sentence to ..... A) Draw attention to the interrelationship of events. B) Illustrate the connectivity of his professional network. C) Challenge the concept of predetermined destiny. D) Explain his plan for a peaceful demonstration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Draw attention to the interrelationship of events. 43. Which statement correctly matches the author and his work? A) Langston Hughes was a novelist who wrote about the strength of poor migrant workers. B) F. Scott Fitzgerald was a novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s. C) Jacob Lawrence was an artist who painted urban and Southwest scenes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) F. Scott Fitzgerald was a novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s. 44. What types of culture were a part of the Harlem Renaissance? A) Italian art, sculptures, and architecture. B) Chinese art, clothing, and technology. C) Jazz, African American art, poetry, etc. D) Spanish art, music, theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jazz, African American art, poetry, etc. 45. Henry Ford's main contribution to the US industry was the idea of the assembly line and ..... A) Automobile. B) Mass production. C) Transportation. D) Sports car. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mass production. 46. A group of expatriate writers who lived in Paris A) Lost Generation. B) Irony. C) Imagism. D) Expatriate. E) World War I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lost Generation. 47. Jessie Fauset was a A) Magazine editor. B) Dancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magazine editor. 48. Paraphrase the following line from "Theme for English B": "Being me, it will not be white." A) He is turning in his theme on colored paper. B) His life experiences make him what he is, and that will come out in his writing. C) The teacher will automatically be prejudiced against his paper. D) The teacher will be able to tell it was written by a black person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His life experiences make him what he is, and that will come out in his writing. 49. What were the causes of WWI? A) Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism. B) Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Isolationism. C) Militarism, Against, Nice, Iguanas. D) Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Impractical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism. 50. The most direct result of the 18th Amendment(Prohibition) was that ..... A) People were mostly in support of the amendment. B) Organized crime in America decreased. C) Organized crime in America increased. D) People stopped drinking alchohol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organized crime in America increased. 51. Which of the following focused on celebrating African-American culture and life? A) Claude McKay. B) Louis Armstrong. C) Jean Toomer. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Langston Hughes. 52. Marcus Garvey encouraged African-Americans to A) Migrate to Africa. B) Stay in the south of the US. C) Buy property and become landlords. D) Create art and literature about topics other than race. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Migrate to Africa. 53. True or False:The Great Migration had a huge impact on the Harlem Renaissance? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 54. African American writer who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance his work expressed the pain of life in the ghettos and urged African-Americans to resist racial discrimination A) Richard Wright. B) Claude McKay. C) Booker T Washington. D) Amiri Barka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Claude McKay. 55. Where did the Harlem Renaissance's arts and culture come from? A) From the south. B) From within New York City. C) From downtown Chicago. D) From Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From the south. 56. The acronym "MAIN" is a way of remembering what four root causes of WWI? A) Militarism, Aggression, Imperialism, Nationalism. B) Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism. C) Militarism, Alliances, Industrialism, Nationalism. D) Mobilization, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism. 57. "Harlem" and "If We Must Die" are similar in all of the following ways EXCEPT: A) Both poems emphasize the negative impact racial segregation had on the economic prosperity of African Americans. B) Both poems were written during the Harlem Renaissance but could apply to many time periods. C) Both poems focus on disenfranchisement (being deprived of a right or privilege). D) Both poems make thoughtful use of comparisons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both poems emphasize the negative impact racial segregation had on the economic prosperity of African Americans. 58. Placing the words"friendly" and "cruel" together in a sentence to describe two characters in an example of: ..... A) Juxtaposition. B) Colloquialism. C) Brazen. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 59. In the 1920s and 1930s, a community of talented African Americans in New York City lived well together and supported each others' gifts and talents. This period is known as the ..... A) Harlem Renaissance. B) Boston Renaissance. C) Revival of New York City. D) Bristol Renaissance Fair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harlem Renaissance. 60. ..... was a particular religious movement that called for simple and very strict rules of worship, discipline, and morality. A) Revolutionary War. B) Self-Government. C) Puritanism. D) Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Puritanism. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesHarlem Renaissance Quiz 1Harlem Renaissance Quiz 2Harlem Renaissance Quiz 4Harlem Renaissance Quiz 5Harlem Renaissance Quiz 6Harlem Renaissance Quiz 7Harlem Renaissance Quiz 8Harlem Renaissance Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books