This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was an important theater in the Harlem Renaissance? A) Apollo Theater. B) Edwards. C) Broadway. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apollo Theater. 2. What was the cause for the Great Migration? A) Racism. B) Drought. C) Famine. D) The NCR's abusive regime. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Racism. 3. To cause continual trouble or distress A) Overt Racism. B) Plague. C) Oppression. D) Defiance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plague. 4. The Harlem Renaissance provided a voice to the African American culture. Which of the following was a theme from this time period. A) Celebration of culture and life. B) Desire for independence and political freedoms. C) Pains and joys of the African American. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. Which of the following formats did Langston NOT write in? A) Poetry. B) Plays. C) Novels. D) Popular songs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Popular songs. 6. Both Pilgrims and Puritans came to America A) To explore. B) To make money. C) To practice their religion freely. D) To live on land of their own. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To practice their religion freely. 7. All of the following rivers are named in Langston Hughes' poem "Negro Speaks of Rivers" except ..... A) Tigris. B) Euphrates. C) Congo. D) Mississippi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tigris. 8. African American soldiers who served in World War I felt A) Anger by their treatment in the US when compared to the greater acceptance they found in Europe. B) Content by their treatment in the US when compared to the poor treatment they found in Europe. C) Resigned to the treatment in the US, because they had experience similar or worse treatment in Europe. D) The need to mass migrate to Europe, this was known as the Great Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anger by their treatment in the US when compared to the greater acceptance they found in Europe. 9. Who was the writer of this legendary poem "A Raisin in the Sun" and was a central figure from the Harlem Renaissance? A) Langston Hughes. B) Alain Locke. C) Zora Neale Hurston. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Langston Hughes. 10. Music in which the weak beats are stressed instead of strong beats A) Literary. B) Genres. C) Syncopated. D) Playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syncopated. 11. In "Song of the Son, " the speaker reflects on A) The legacy of slaves. B) The cruelty of slave owners. C) The unfairness of Jim Crow laws. D) The music of the Harlem Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The legacy of slaves. 12. What type of fighting was used in WWI? A) Guerrilla Warfare. B) Total Warfare. C) Subwarfare. D) Trench Warfare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trench Warfare. 13. This woman founded the National Women's Party & proposed an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. She was A) Georgia O'Keefe. B) Alice Paul. C) Margaret Sanger. D) Dorothy Parker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alice Paul. 14. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin? (Approx) A) 1920. B) 1930. C) 1940. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1920. 15. Define "ambitious" in this sentence:Ambitious individuals who had endured the hard realities of segregation and racism in the South drew together in Harlem. A) Separated. B) Eager to achieve a goal. C) Refusing to do a task. D) To hold out against. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eager to achieve a goal. 16. A famous writer known for a novel called, Their Eyes Were Watching God, was also a recorder of African American folk songs and stories. A) Zora Neale Hurston. B) Ida Tarbell. C) Taylor Swift. D) Jane Addams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zora Neale Hurston. 17. Illegal alcohol sellers A) None of these. B) Speakeasies. C) Mobsters. D) Bootleggers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bootleggers. 18. True or False:The original name for the Harlem Renaissance was "the New Negro Movement" . A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. To what does the speaker in "Mother to Son" compare her life experiences? A) To a bare floor. B) To a wooden staircase. C) To a crystal staircase. D) To a dark passageway. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To a wooden staircase. 20. What did the works of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes have in common? A) It openly celebrated the traditions and rituals of African American culture. B) They focused on the plight that African-Americans faced historically and contemporarily. C) It advocated the "Back to Africa" movement. D) It spoke of the racial superiority of the African American over the white American. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They focused on the plight that African-Americans faced historically and contemporarily. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesHarlem Renaissance Quiz 1Harlem Renaissance Quiz 2Harlem Renaissance Quiz 3Harlem 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