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Harlem Renaissance Review
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Literature, culture, poetic devices of the Harlem Renaissance
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1
James Weldon Johnson held all of the following jobs, except...
lawyer
steamboat captain
song writer
teacher
2
Thousands of African Americans settled in Harlem, in which state?
Washington
Indiana
New York
California
3
Writers, artists, and musicians were forced to leave Harlem after the Renaissance because...
Artists & musicians moved to Hollywood;creative culture died
They were unable to support themselves financially
The government forced them to go back to the South
The leaders of the NAACP shut Harlem down.
4
Claude McKay's famous peom, "If I Must Die" was quoted by...
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
Harry Truman
President Obama
5
Countee Cullen wrote mostly about...
white society
racism
the life of a sharecropper
universal issues
6
Determine poetic devices in the following: "But, ah! Manhattan's sights and sounds, her smells"
simile
alliteration
consonance
personification
7
The artistic pieces produced during the Harlem Renaissance are all united because...
They are all written in the same style
They are all poems
They are focused on life of African Americans at that time
They are all written about positive things
8
The Harlem Renaissance was driven by the popularity of what type of music?
classical
heavy metal
jazz and blues
rock and roll
9
Name of historical event when millions of African Americans moved from the south to the north..
The Great Awakening
The Great Migration
The Great Diaspora
The Great Depression
10
"They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes," contains which devices?
assonance
alliteration
metaphor
onomatopoeia
11
The Harlem Renaissance lasted from...
1900-1907
1920-1930
1940-1946
1952-1960
12
Arna Bontemps...
left Harlem for the South
left Harlem for California
left Harlem to study Eastern philosophy
left Harlem for New York City
13
Langston Hughes first began writing poetry in...
eleventh grade
elementary school
seventh grade
college
14
Jean Toomer had a special perspective in the Harlem Renaissance, because
He had a brother on Broadway
He was of mixed race
He moved to Mexico
He was from Jamaica
15
Many African Americans migrated from the South to the North because...
They were only allowed to attend college in the North
There was a larger audience for the arts in the North
They were looking for a way to escape slavery
They were searching for new opportunities
16
The literature of the Harlem Renaissance is about...
any aspect of the African American experience
imagination and creativity
slavery and its aftermath
pessimism and injustice
17
Identify poetic devices in the following: "He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool."
assonance
alliteration
metaphor
simile
18
Historical event that forced artists to disperse and end the Harlem Renaissance is called...
The Great Diaspora
The Great Awakening
The Great Depression
The Great Migration
