Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance

12th Grade

15 Qs

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Harlem Renaissance

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Assessment

Quiz

English

12th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RI.11-12.9, RL.7.9, RL.2.6

+7

Standards-aligned

Created by

Sarah Williams

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

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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