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When did the Harlem Renaissance take place?

• The end of WW1 and the 1930's
• 1930's-1940's
• 1900's-1920's
• 1910's-1920's

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Who was Langston Hughes?

• A popular swing dance singer
• Owner of a popular Speak Easy 
• A famous poet and writer 
• A famous actor

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What is rhythm in poetry? 

• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that features strong accents, quick changes in rhythm, and irregular beats.
• Rhythmic repetition of words and phrases
• One or more repeated lines of poetry that function like the chorus of a song
• Words at the end of each poetic line that rhymes 

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What is considered repetition in poetry?

• One or more repeated lines of poetry that function like the chorus of a song
• Rhythmic repetition of words and phrases, like that used in blues lyrics
• Words at the end of each poetic line that rhyme
• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that features strong accents,quick changes in rhythm, and irregular beats.

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What was one theme Hughes DID NOT focus on in his writings?

• Dreams
• Morality 
• Equality 
• Spirituality

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Where was Langston Hughes born? 

• Harlem, New York 
• Orlando, Florida
• Bozeman, Montana
• Joplin, Missouri

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What poem is Langston Hughes most well known for?

• The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• As I Grew Older
• Dreams 
• Cross

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Which of these people was a writer during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Langston Hughes
  
• Archibald Motely
• Louis Armstrong
• Duke Ellington

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What poem was Hughes inspired to write while on a trip to visit his father in Mexico?

• Dreams
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• Harlem 
• Cross

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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

•  black authors, musicians, painters who lived in, or described, the Harlem district of New York City during the 1920s and 1930s
•  black authors, musicians, painters who lived in, or described, the Harlem district of New York City during the 1800s
•  black authors, musicians, painters who lived in, or described, the Harlem district of New York City during the 1990s
• A time where African American culture was at its lowest.

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