This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 51 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 51 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Opera singer who performed at Lincoln Memorial and the White House A) Ella Fitzgerald. B) Marian Anderson. C) Lena Horne. D) A'Lelia Walker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marian Anderson. 2. The driving force behind the Harlem Renaissance largely came from ..... A) Newly arrived immigrants from Europe. B) African Americans who moved from the Jim Crow South to the North & Midwest to start new lives. C) Captains of industry who had monopolies in various industries. D) Native Americans who were forced to live on reservations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) African Americans who moved from the Jim Crow South to the North & Midwest to start new lives. 3. The time when a lot of African-Americans moved North from the South is called ..... A) The Great Apostacy. B) The Great Movement. C) The Great Migration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Great Migration. 4. An argument based on logic and reason rather than emotion and personal opinion is best described as ..... A) Objective. B) Rhetorical. C) Biased. D) Weak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objective. 5. Ebony A) When a wound becomes filled with pus. B) Blackish or very dark brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blackish or very dark brown. 6. Some PUSH FACTORS of the South, influencing the Great Migration included all of the following, except ..... A) Discrimination, lynchings and black codes. B) Factory jobs in the North. C) Drought and boll weevils destroying crops. D) Unfair share cropping contracts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Factory jobs in the North. 7. Which sentence is correct about the Cotton Club? A) The club had an open-door policy for customers, but featured many of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians of the era. B) The club had a male-only policy for customers, but featured many of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians of the era. C) The club had a whites-only policy for customers, but featured many of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians of the era. D) The club had a female-only policy for customers, but featured many of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians of the era. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The club had a whites-only policy for customers, but featured many of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians of the era. 8. Read the excerpt from "The Weary Blues." He made that poor piano moan with melody. O Blues!Swaying to and fro on his rickety stoolHe played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool. Sweet Blues!Coming from a black man's soul. O Blues! In a deep song voice with a melancholy toneI heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan- "Ain't got nobody in all this world, Ain't got nobody but ma self.I's gwine to quit ma frownin' And put ma troubles on the shelf." What is the effect of repeating the phrase "piano moan" in the poem? A) It sets a sad, mournful tone. B) It adds a cheerful, melodic chord. C) It adds an open, musical sound. D) It sets an angry, discordant tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It sets a sad, mournful tone. 9. "Harlem" reveals the speaker's feelings mainly by? A) Using personification to show the characteristics of a dream. B) Using similes to describe what happens to dreams. C) Using metaphors to describe what happens to dreams. D) Using imagery to make the reader feel the pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Using similes to describe what happens to dreams. 10. Which of the following is NOT a political or economic movement that helped empower African Americans in the 1920s? A) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. B) United Negro Improvement Association. C) Freedmen's Bureau. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Freedmen's Bureau. 11. Syncopated A) Shifting of stresses from normally strong to normally weak beats. B) Blackish or very dark brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shifting of stresses from normally strong to normally weak beats. 12. What is democracy? A) Democracy is a form of government where all people have a voice and can give input. B) Democracy is a form of government where one person makes all of the decisions. C) Democracy is a feeling. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Democracy is a form of government where all people have a voice and can give input. 13. Dance floor was spring loaded and a city block long A) Cotton Club. B) Minstrel shows. C) Savoy Ballroom. D) Apollo Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Savoy Ballroom. 14. Who wrote everyday poetry? A) Langston Hughes. B) Countee Cullen. C) Duke Ellington. D) Carl Von Vechten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Langston Hughes. 15. What was the mood of the poem "Harlem:A Poem" by Walter Dean Myers. A) Sad. B) Angry. C) Hopeless. D) Celebratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Celebratory. 16. What did the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance foster among black Americans? A) A sense of racial pride and encouraged resistance against subservient roles. B) The resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. C) The dismantling of voting rights through tactics like literacy tests and the grandfather clause. D) The concentration of black intellectuals and artists in Harlem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A sense of racial pride and encouraged resistance against subservient roles. 17. What purpose does this repetition serve in "I Hear America Singing" A) It creates alliteration. B) It reinforces the poem's rhyme scheme. C) It creates vivid images of American life. D) It unifies the poem and reinforces the theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It unifies the poem and reinforces the theme. 18. What did the Great Migration create in the Harlem district of New York? A) A space for black Americans to express themselves and their experiences. B) A resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. C) A dismantling of voting rights through tactics like literacy tests and the grandfather clause. D) A concentration of black intellectuals and artists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A space for black Americans to express themselves and their experiences. 19. This person was an author, playwright, and filmmaker. She became friends with and worked with Langston Hughes on a play. A) Louis Armstrong. B) Zora Neale Hurston. C) Aaron Douglas. D) Bessie Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zora Neale Hurston. 20. (US.28) What areas did southern blacks move to during the Great Migration? A) Small towns in the northeast. B) Large cities in the midwest. C) Industrial cities in the northeast. D) Rural towns in the northeast. 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