This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 31 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a system that keeps diverse groups separate from each other. A) Segregation. B) Discrimination. C) Heritage. D) Gimmick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Segregation. 2. According to the speaker in "I, Too, " what does the darker brother do when sent to the kitchen? A) Waits for tomorrow. B) Feels beautiful. C) Finds company. D) Grows strong. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grows strong. 3. What does tempo mean? A) How loud the music is. B) How fast or slow the music is. C) Compares two or more unlike things without using like or as. D) How the sounds or words show feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How fast or slow the music is. 4. 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. 5. Who does the speaker represent in "A Black Man Talks of Reaping?" A) The human race. B) Black Americans living in the beginning of the 20th century. C) The present-day farmers in the 1920s. D) The Harlem youth of the 1920s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Black Americans living in the beginning of the 20th century. 6. Langston Hughes grandmother, Mary Hughes was A) The first black female writer. B) The first black woman to graduate college. C) The first black woman to attend Oberlin College. D) The first black woman to become published. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The first black woman to attend Oberlin College. 7. The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of ..... A) People getting jobs. B) African American culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) African American culture. 8. Commercials usually have ..... to their products because they seldom work exactly as they did on the advertisement. A) Diversity. B) A gimmick. C) A recruitment. D) Defiance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A gimmick. 9. At what age did Hurston notice she was colored? A) 13. B) 14. C) 17. D) Since she was born. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 13. 10. 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. 11. Where Were Jim Crow Laws Mainly Used? A) Eastern Shore. B) South. C) North. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) South. 12. 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". 13. 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. 14. 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). 15. For some, Ethiopia, represents the Harlem Renaissance. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. 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. 17. The point of James VanDerZee's art was to highlight what? A) African Americans in WWI. B) Jim Crow South. C) White politicians corruption. D) The growing black middle class. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The growing black middle class. 18. 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) Duke Ellington. B) Langston Hughes. C) James Brown. D) Alain Locke. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alain Locke. 19. All of the following are traits of the Harlem Renaissance EXCEPT A) Inspiration in nature. B) Intellectualism. C) Identity. D) Urban LIfe. E) Racial Pride. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inspiration in nature. 20. 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. 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