Harlem Renaissance Quiz 30 (20 MCQs)

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1. The title of "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" emphasizes the poem's theme concerning
2. Which of the following lists details that are present in both passages?
3. Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil to play what instrument?
4. Private clubs where alcohol was illegally consumed
5. 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?
6. The poem, "The Heart of Woman, " shows the highs and lows woman face in life.
7. Given in great amounts, or more than necessary
8. When the speaker talks of "a little tent pitched in a meadow", he means that
9. You will form your own thesis
10. 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?
11. In 1900 most African Americans were .....
12. How would you describe a flapper
13. The Pilgrims and the Puritans came from
14. Langston Hughes attempted to start his own magazine in 1926.
15. "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."
16. Famous artist during the Harlem Renaissance that used his art to bring attention to racism and segregation
17. ..... is a famous Harlem poet.
18. Why was Harlem viewed as the starting point of the modern black artistic movement?
19. How many stanzas does the following excerpt have? The sky was litby the splendor of the moon So powerfulI fell to the ground
20. Puritans wanted to ..... the church.