This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 38 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This black nationalist association was founded by Marcus Garvey. A) Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). B) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. C) United Nations. D) Free African Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). 2. Which statement below is written in the third person point of view? A) When you go to Harlem, you can feel the music in your bones. B) I knew the story of the Harlem Renaissance, but I was never told about the Great Migration. C) When people heard about the jazz music being played, they went to Harlem to see for themselves. D) You would have loved to experience the scat singing firsthand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When people heard about the jazz music being played, they went to Harlem to see for themselves. 3. Use of vivid or figurative language to create a strong picture in the reader's mind A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 4. How did Carl Von Vechten help during the Harlem Renaissance? A) He traveled to Harlem. B) Throw big parties to have fun. C) Studied Harlem. D) Made sure newspapers wrote about Harlem artists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Made sure newspapers wrote about Harlem artists. 5. What was different about Jean Toomer? A) He was a writer during the Harlem Renaissance. B) He had never visited the South. C) He could pass between black and white worlds. D) He was African American. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He could pass between black and white worlds. 6. This major dramatic actor 's performance in Shakespeare's Othello was widely acclaimed. A) Duke Ellington. B) Paul Robeson. C) Claude McKay. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paul Robeson. 7. Figurative Language or Literal Language? Aaron Douglas's paintings whispered the stories of the culture. A) Figurative. B) Literal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative. 8. An exciting activity, a thrilling event A) Fame. B) Prosperous. C) Adventure. D) Symbolized. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adventure. 9. Laws forbidding people of different races from marrying. Abolished by the US Supreme Court in 1967 A) Segregation laws. B) Jim crow laws. C) Miscegenation laws. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Miscegenation laws. 10. How was the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s different from the Ku Klux Klan following the Civil War? A) They abandoned the violent intimidation tactics of its predecessor in favor of economic boycotts. B) They found most of their support in the rural South due to the migration blacks North. C) They targeted Catholic and Jewish immigrants, as well as African Americans and Prohibition violators. D) They became increasingly popular among Hispanic and Asian populations on the West Coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They targeted Catholic and Jewish immigrants, as well as African Americans and Prohibition violators. 11. A series of words with the same beginning sound. A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 12. Marginalize A) To spread with butter. B) To place in a position of little importance. C) To write on a narrow strip of paper. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To place in a position of little importance. 13. What was one cause of the Great Migration? A) The end of the Civil War. B) A labor shortage during World War I. C) Rampant disease in the South. D) Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A labor shortage during World War I. 14. First black woman to win a Grammy A) Ella Fitzgerald. B) Lena Horne. C) Marian Anderson. D) A'Lelia Walker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ella Fitzgerald. 15. Read the excerpt from "Harlem." Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet? Read the excerpt from "The Weary Blues." Droning a drowsy syncopated tuneRocking back and forth to a mellow croon In both poems, Hughes uses the imagery to ..... A) Establish tone. B) Offer background information. C) Convey a criticism. D) Conjure pleasant memories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Establish tone. 16. What motivated African-American men to serve in World War I? A) Desire for adventure. B) Financial gain. C) Demonstration of loyalty and patriotism. D) Escape from racial discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demonstration of loyalty and patriotism. 17. Who was an important jazz musician of the Harlem Renaissance? A) Jacob Lawrence. B) Langston Hughes. C) Duke Ellington. D) Zora Neale Hurston. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duke Ellington. 18. What is true about haiku poems? A) They're usually about nature. B) All of the above. C) They originated in Japan. D) They have three lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All of the above. 19. A river of Central Africa flowing into the Atlantic Ocean, also known as the Zaire River. A) The Congo. B) The Euphrates. C) The Mississippi. D) The Nile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Congo. 20. Which line best shows that Mr. Durmont's point of view of Hilton has changed? A) "Suppose you've got some kind of tom-fool contraption that will take half a day to get a message into the next village. B) To find himself threatened with a large financial loss; to have this averted by the help of the scientific knowledge of a colored boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To find himself threatened with a large financial loss; to have this averted by the help of the scientific knowledge of a colored boy. ← 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