Harlem Renaissance Test

And the river flows like a stream of glass; This line from "Sympathy" is an example of what?

In"We Wear The Mask,"the author uses first-person plural pronouns to stand for the collective voice of African Americans

Aaron Douglas is known as...

City located in northern Manhattan which became the most important African American community in the nation.

Authors wrote about injustices they & their ancestors had suffered, so that readers could draw strength from the past

Which line from "We Wear the Mask" suggests hiding scars from past from society

Who inspired Aaron Douglas to become an artist?

Harlem Renaissance writers primarily chose to depict the African American experience which of the following ways-2

 Dunbar, like many artists of the HR, refused to look away from the consequences of past and present oppression.

Let America be America again. . . Let it be the pioneer on the plain

Place that became the center of Harlem night life & destination for New Yorkers & for celebrities from around the world.

Was born a slave, he became the most important black educator of his time. He founded Alabama's Tuskegee Institute

In the poem "We Wear the Mask," the mask is a metaphor for: 

This work by Aaron Douglas was painted in 1934. It's called 

What Is Billie Holiday nickname?

To establish their identity, HR writers grappled with themes that dealt with the past, all of the following except: 

A supporter of HR artists, he helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Let America be America again. . . Let it be the pioneer on the plain

What line in the text best responds to the author's REALISTIC approach to capturing the African American experience

What was the name of the poem, and later song, performed by Lewis Allen & Billie Holiday?

Langston Hughes's poem, "I,Too," is an important allusion to this famous American author "Leaves of Grass" in 1855.  

Although free, African Americans often lived in harsh and poor conditions and were subject to discrimination and racism.

In what university did Aaron Douglas start to see a rise in his career?

Harlem Renaissance writer, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, wrote the following two poems 

This facilitated the liberation of slaves, issued by Lincoln in 1863

This man encouraged being proud of one's race, and advocated founding a country in Africa to which they could emigrate

What is the definition of the literary element THEME?

What line in "I,Too" best reflects an optimistic or uplifting attitude about the future of African Americans?

What is imagery?

Massive numbers of African Americans relocating to the North from the South between 1890 and 1920 is called