This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 40 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This person from South Carolina was a famous jazz trumpet player. A) Dizzy Gillespie. B) Hootie and the Blowfish. C) Henry McMaster. D) Dawn Staley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dizzy Gillespie. 2. Who is Langston Hughes? A) Poet. B) Novelist. C) Significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. The Harlem Renaissance influenced American society by A) Establishing government programs to assist African AmericansEstablecer programas gubernamentales para ayudar a los afroamericanos. B) Ending racial segregation of public facilities. C) Encouraging urban renewal projects in major American cities. D) Increasing awareness of African American contributions to American culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increasing awareness of African American contributions to American culture. 4. Define social class A) Division of a society based on social and economic status. B) How popular someone was in society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Division of a society based on social and economic status. 5. Unfair difference in treatment; prejudice A) Discrimination. B) Prosperous. C) International. D) Symbolized. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discrimination. 6. Who was the First African American to star on their own TV Show A) Ethel Waters. B) Donald Bogle. C) Paul Robeson. D) Evelyn Preer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethel Waters. 7. What literary device does Hurston employ when she repeats the words "slavery" and "slaves" for the purpose of emphasis? A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 8. "Harlem" by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? The speaker in "Harlem" contemplates ..... A) The outcome of people's hatred. B) The fate of aspirations that are unrealized. C) The result of heavy labor in extreme conditions. D) The consequences of childhood neglect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The fate of aspirations that are unrealized. 9. Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. What is the author's purpose for including this sentence? A) To establish the suffering experienced under segregation. B) To define the concept of a direct action campaign. C) To criticize the public officials who endorse segregation. D) To explain his unwillingness to postpone his efforts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To explain his unwillingness to postpone his efforts. 10. Langston Hughes wrote A) Magazines. B) Everyday poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Everyday poetry. 11. Countee Cullen was a notable figure of the Harlem Renaissance. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. The Harlem Globetrotters were great performers. They Performed tricks while playing this sport. A) Football. B) Golf. C) Basketball. D) Soccer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Basketball. 13. How did the Harlem Renaissance expand the influence of African americans in the United States? A) It promoted passage of civil rights legislation. B) It increased awareness of artistic contributions of African Americans. C) It established new, modern neighborhoods for middle-class African Americans. D) It supported the election of minorities to public office. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It increased awareness of artistic contributions of African Americans. 14. This was a literary and artistic movement that celebrated Africa-American culture. A) NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). B) UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association). C) Harlem Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harlem Renaissance. 15. Jazz demonstrates core American values such as ..... A) Restriction and sadness. B) Freedom and cultural diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freedom and cultural diversity. 16. Which artist used Egyptian and West African sources in their art to depict segregation and race? A) Aaron Douglas. B) James Van der Zee. C) Richmond Barthe. D) Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aaron Douglas. 17. What does the speaker tell the boy? A) To keep going up the stairs, because she is till going. B) That he will not be able to reach the top without a lot of help. C) That he will fall down the stairs if he is not careful. D) That crystal stairs are not fared to climb if he doesn't turn back. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To keep going up the stairs, because she is till going. 18. What literary term is related to writing about what life was like in the city (New York)? A) Allusion. B) Duality. C) Urbanity. D) Folk art. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urbanity. 19. African Americans fled from the South in pursuit of A) Jobs, higher wages, better benefits, bigger cities. B) Jobs, higher wages, escape racism, better education. C) Jobs, higher wages, more hospitable climate, escape slavery. D) Jobs, higher wages, escape slavery, better education. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jobs, higher wages, escape racism, better education. 20. Slavery was abolished by ..... A) The Gettysburg Address. B) At Appomattox court house. C) The Emancipation Proclamation. D) The 13th Amendment. 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