This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 58 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 58 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Send A) Bio. B) Mis, with. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mis, with. 2. What were the years of the Harlem Renaissance? A) 1980-1992. B) 1920-1930. C) 1918-1937. D) Right Now. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1918-1937. 3. Harlem is found in which city? A) Miami, Florida. B) Boston, Massachusetts. C) New York City, New York. D) Washington, D.C. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New York City, New York. 4. What is the tone used in Hurston's essay "How it feels to be colored me" ? A) Confident. B) Angry. C) Sad. D) Anxious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confident. 5. True/False Most black writers and artists were born in Harlem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. The Harlem Renaissance was a period of U.S. history marked by a burst of creativity within the African American community. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. What did lyrics in Jazz songs sometimes discuss? A) Cell phones. B) Popular dances of the time. C) Black struggle/opposition. D) Mardi Gras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Black struggle/opposition. 8. African-American art and poetry sometimes conveyed inspiring messages of defiance. Defiance means ..... A) Boldness, or rebellion. B) Sadness or despair. C) Comedy or humor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boldness, or rebellion. 9. Many black people moved to Harlem in order to: A) Get the right to vote. B) Find jobs working in farming. C) Become famous. D) Escape racism in the south and seek economic and social opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Escape racism in the south and seek economic and social opportunities. 10. How is the TONE in Hurston's essay and Hughes's poem DIFFERENT? A) Hurston is seen as a victim of racism and Hughes is not. B) Hughes is seen as a victim of racism and Hurston is not. C) They both speak about their experiences in a white society. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hughes is seen as a victim of racism and Hurston is not. 11. What was Langston Hughs' first published poem? A) The Negro Speaks of Rivers. B) Harlem. C) Theme for English B. D) Warning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Negro Speaks of Rivers. 12. Langston Hughes wanted to tell the stories of ..... A) African Americans. B) Farmers. C) Poets. D) Writers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) African Americans. 13. Who wrote "Ain't Misbehavin" A) Billie Holiday. B) Jelly Roll Morton. C) Fats Waller. D) Ella Fitzgerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fats Waller. 14. Read the passage from A New Astronomy, by David Todd. From Polaris a line of small stars curves toward the handle of the Dipper, meeting the upper one of a pair of the third magnitude. This pair, with another farther on and parallel to it, form the 'Little Dipper, ' Polaris being the end of its handle. The group is Ursa Minor. Opposite the handle of the great Dipper, and at about the same distance from Polaris, are five rather bright stars forming a flattened letter W. They are the principal stars of Cassiopeia. What strategy does the author use in his choice of language to convey his message? A) Persuasive influence. B) Facts and statements. C) Sequence of events. D) Experts' logic and reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Facts and statements. 15. Paraphrasing is key to determining the ..... of a poem. A) Speaker. B) Subject. C) Both speaker and subject. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both speaker and subject. 16. What time period did the Great Migration take place during? A) 1810-1830. B) 1950-1990. C) 1910-1930. D) 1990-2010. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1910-1930. 17. A famous writer, known for his poetry. He wrote a poem called, "The Weary Blues." He was the first writer to use African American "vernacular, " which means a way of talking, in his writing. He was also known to write about the African American experience. Who was he? A) Langston Hughes. B) Duke Ellington. C) Alain Locke. D) Florence Mills. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Langston Hughes. 18. Who was the first Black American to earn a Rhodes scholarship? A) James Weldon Johnson. B) Walter White. C) Alain Locke. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alain Locke. 19. The "T" in TPCASTT could stand for any of the following EXCEPT: A) Title. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Title. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 20. Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation, and ensured that blacks would remain a ..... in American society A) Marginality. B) Indigenous. C) Colloquialism. D) Renaissance. 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