Harlem Renaissance Quiz 71 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a important place during the Renaissance
2. The following lines from "FIfty Years" contains what literary device: "Think you that John Brown's spirit stops? / That Lovejoy was but idly slain?"
3. African American writer; her work celebrated the simple way of life and traditional value of people who escaped slavery
4. A jazz style of singing which uses nonsense syllables but allows emotion to help tell a story
5. My baseball coach had a great ....., so I decided to coach baseball.
6. From "My Country Tis of Thee" the line "late land of slavery" is an example of .....
7. What is the purpose of including the following selection in the article (paragraph 18)?But Harlem brought together some of the greatest minds of the day. The artists of the Harlem Renaissance transformed African-American culture. But the effects on all of America was equally strong. For the first time, white America could not look away.
8. One goal of the the Harlem Renaissance writers was to increase pride in African American culture.
9. Based on the caption next to the photograph of W.E.B Du Bois, what can you infer about W.E.B Du Bois?
10. Harlem is a neighborhood in which city?
11. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is best described as
12. What is the meaning of enslaved as it is used in the text?
13. Define stereotype.
14. What was the title of the Langston Hughes poem that we read together
15. What group that was created to ensure that African Americans could achieve equality in the U.S., gained traction in the 1920's, and still exists today?
16. Which decade is known as the Roaring 20s?
17. This Amendment outlawed alcohol in the United States
18. What did newspapers like the Chicago Defender do during the Great Migration?
19. How old was the speaker of the poem?
20. Where did the Wright Brothers make their first flight?