This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Harlem Renaissance > Harlem Renaissance – Quiz 65 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harlem Renaissance Quiz 65 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The principle of "separate but equal" established by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was used to A) Desegregate schools in the south. B) End the use of police brutality. C) Expand the freedoms guaranteed by the Articles of Confederation. D) Justify racial segregation of public facilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Justify racial segregation of public facilities. 2. What was the name of the African Americans beginning to migrate to the North in great numbers A) The Great Migration. B) The Great Voyage. C) The Underground Railroad. D) The Jazzfest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Great Migration. 3. Which leader wanted equal rights for blacks but continued segregation? A) W.E.B. Du Bois. B) Booker T. Washington. C) Marcus Garvey. D) Langston Hughes. E) Duke Ellington. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marcus Garvey. 4. Yes or No:Was Booker T. Washington a segregationist? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 5. What does techniques mean? A) A way of communicating such as language, music and painting. B) Giving for a purpose. C) A certain form of something. D) A method or way of doing or performing something. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A method or way of doing or performing something. 6. The "Great Migration" of 1910-1920 refers to the movement of ..... A) Immigrants from Europe to America. B) People from rural areas and towns to large cities. C) African Americans from the United States to Africa. D) African Americans from the South to northern cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) African Americans from the South to northern cities. 7. In the poem "Sympathy, " what does the caged bird want most? A) A better cage. B) Freedom. C) Joy. D) Companions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freedom. 8. How did the Harlem Renaissance impact the world's perception of African Americans? A) It created a new image of sophisticated and intellectual African Americans. B) It reinforced negative stereotypes. C) It led to increased discrimination. D) It had no impact on perception. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It created a new image of sophisticated and intellectual African Americans. 9. The Weary Blues poem won a contest and awarded Langston Hughes a scholarship to A) Lincoln Universtiy. B) Oberlin College. C) Paris Conservatory. D) Harvard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lincoln Universtiy. 10. Read the excerpt from Studies of Trees, by Jacob Levison. The pines are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and include about 80 distinct species with over 600 varieties. The species enumerated here are especially common in the eastern part of the United States, growing either native in the forest or under cultivation in the parks. The pines form a very important class of timber trees, and produce beautiful effects when planted in groups in the parks. Which strategy does the author use in his choice of language to convey his message? A) Facts and statements. B) Sequence of events. C) Conclusive evidence. D) Persuasive influence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facts and statements. 11. What did Marcus Garvey call for Black workers across the United States to do in response to racism and discrimination? A) Strike and Riot. B) File claim with NAACP. C) Protest, March and Boycott. D) Move to Africa and create powerful nation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Move to Africa and create powerful nation. 12. The main cause of the Red Scare was A) Drinkers and bootleggers. B) Fear of communism. C) Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance. D) Welfare Reform. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fear of communism. 13. How did race relations in the South change after Reconstruction? A) Laws were created to increase African Americans' rights. B) Poll Taxes were decreased to ensure voting practices. C) Laws were created to limit African Americans' rights. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laws were created to limit African Americans' rights. 14. Who were the Allied Powers during World War I? A) Russia, German Empire, France, Spain. B) United States, France, Russia, Serbia, Britain. C) Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy. D) Spain, Italy, France, German Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) United States, France, Russia, Serbia, Britain. 15. The artists' from the Harlem Renaissance goal was to ..... A) Run the white people out of the neighborhood. B) Publish more songs, poems, and stories than ever before. C) Create an expression of their dark-skinned selves. D) Win a national elected office. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Create an expression of their dark-skinned selves. 16. Star A) Astro. B) Bio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Astro. 17. This man was a bandleader. He worked at the Cotton Club. He played the piano. He wrote his own style of music. He wrote music for an orchestra. Who was he? A) Billy Bob Thornton. B) Mangy Ray. C) Duke Ellington. D) Alain Locke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duke Ellington. 18. What effect does Hughes achieve by repeating the phrase "does it" in "Harlem" ? "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. A) Short words and hard consonants create a sense of angry uncertainty. B) Short words and questions demonstrate Hughes's confidence. C) The repetition creates a sense of peace and serenity for the reader. D) The repetition highlights Hughes's feelings of self-respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Short words and hard consonants create a sense of angry uncertainty. 19. Harlem was known as the center of a A) Cultural revolution. B) Writer's collection. C) Movement for peace. D) Spiritual coming of age. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spiritual coming of age. 20. How did the consumer economy of the 1920s affect the lives of women? A) It made life easier for rural women. B) It made life easier for working women. C) It made it harder for women to housewives. D) It made life easier for urban women. 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