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Harlem Renaissance Review
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Literature, culture, poetic devices of the Harlem Renaissance
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The artistic pieces produced during the Harlem Renaissance are all united because...
They are all poems
They are focused on life of African Americans at that time
They are all written about positive things
They are all written in the same style
2
James Weldon Johnson held all of the following jobs, except...
steamboat captain
teacher
song writer
lawyer
3
Claude McKay's famous peom, "If I Must Die" was quoted by...
Harry Truman
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
President Obama
4
The Harlem Renaissance lasted from...
1940-1946
1952-1960
1900-1907
1920-1930
5
Historical event that forced artists to disperse and end the Harlem Renaissance is called...
The Great Depression
The Great Migration
The Great Diaspora
The Great Awakening
6
"They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes," contains which devices?
parallel structure
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
7
The Harlem Renaissance was driven by the popularity of what type of music?
rock and roll
classical
jazz and blues
heavy metal
8
Langston Hughes first began writing poetry in...
seventh grade
elementary school
college
eleventh grade
9
Writers, artists, and musicians were forced to leave Harlem after the Renaissance because...
Artists & musicians moved to Hollywood;creative culture died
The government forced them to go back to the South
They were unable to support themselves financially
The leaders of the NAACP shut Harlem down.
10
Thousands of African Americans settled in Harlem, in which state?
Indiana
Washington
California
New York
11
Identify poetic devices in the following: "He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool."
simile
assonance
alliteration
metaphor
12
Name of historical event when millions of African Americans moved from the south to the north..
The Great Awakening
The Great Depression
The Great Migration
The Great Diaspora
13
The literature of the Harlem Renaissance is about...
slavery and its aftermath
any aspect of the African American experience
pessimism and injustice
imagination and creativity
14
Arna Bontemps...
left Harlem for New York City
left Harlem for the South
left Harlem for California
left Harlem to study Eastern philosophy
15
Determine poetic devices in the following: "But, ah! Manhattan's sights and sounds, her smells"
simile
alliteration
consonance
personification
16
Many African Americans migrated from the South to the North because...
They were looking for a way to escape slavery
They were only allowed to attend college in the North
There was a larger audience for the arts in the North
They were searching for new opportunities
