Harlem Renaissance

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English
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12th Grade
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Hard
+7
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Sarah Williams
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15 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which poet began his career with a book of jazz poems titled "The Weary Blues"?
Claude McKay
Langston Hughes
Richard Wright
Ralph Ellison
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What type of clubs are mentioned as part of the Harlem scene in the 1920s?
Jazz clubs
Rock clubs
Classical music clubs
Country music clubs
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.9
CCSS.RL.8.9
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which sociologist is quoted in the text?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Alain Locke
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In which essay did Langston Hughes write about the blues being sung by "black, beaten, but unbeatable throats"?
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"Songs Called the Blues"
"Montage of a Dream Deferred"
"The Weary Blues"
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which novelists and poets are mentioned as owing a debt to the artists of the Harlem Renaissance?
Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck
Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Rita Dove
J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, and George R.R. Martin
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What was the Harlem Renaissance also known as?
The Red Summer
The Great Migration
The New Negro Movement
The Civil Rights Movement
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.9
CCSS.RL.8.9
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Where did the Harlem Renaissance take place?
Chicago
Cleveland
Harlem
Los Angeles
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
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