The Harlem Renaissance

Question 1

Duke Ellington was a famous jazz musician during and after the Harlem Renaissance.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

a cultural explosion among African Americans that started in the 1920s

Question 3

What did African Americans continue to face in the North?

Accepted Answer

violence and institutionalized racism

Question 4

Why was the 1917 theater production, "Three Plays for a Negro Theater," important to the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

It was the first play to cast African Americans showing complex emotions., It rejected many harmful stereotypes of African Americans.

Question 5

Why didn't African Americans want to work in the South after slavery ended?

Accepted Answer

they had to continue working as farm laborers making a meager wage., they couldn't improve their lives due to segregation, racism, and violence.

Question 6

What did Langston Hughes write about?

Accepted Answer

the struggles African Americans faced, with themes of hope and persistence.

Question 7

What was the Great Migration?

Accepted Answer

The movement of African Americans from South to North for a better life.

Question 8

Why was the Harlem Renaissance important to African Americans?

Accepted Answer

to make all of American society aware of the gifts African Americans had., to teach the larger American society of struggles African Americans faced., to take back the history and identity that had been denied to them., to foster a collective (group) cultural heritage to take pride in.

Question 9

Which of the following elements did both, poetry and music of the Harlem Renaissance era, include?

Accepted Answer

blues, traditional spiritual songs

Question 10

Why did African Americans move North?

Accepted Answer

to find better paying jobs in city factories instead of on farms.

Question 11

What did the term the "New Negro," mean during the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

embracing assertiveness and a refusal to submit to racial prejudice.

The Harlem Renaissance

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The Harlem Renaissance

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