Chapter 13 Test

Question 1

Struggled to the top of the African American literary society by hard work. Most famous female writer of the era.

Answer 1

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 2

Lead on organization that fought for African American rights.

Answer 2

James Weldon Johnson

Question 3

Believed that African Americans should build a separate society.

Answer 3

Marcus Garvey

Question 4

Major figure whose actions urged African Americans to resist prejudice

Answer 4

Claude McKay

Question 5

Most famous African American writer of the era

Answer 5

Langston Hudges

Question 6

Talent rocketed him to stardom in jazz.

Answer 6

Louis Armstrong

Question 7

Led his 10 piece orchestra at the cotton club

Answer 7

Duke Ellington

Question 8

Harlem Renaissance was all about…

Answer 8

To celebrate African American culture and how whites accepted them into mainstream society.

Question 9

Why did the Harlem Renaissance take place?

Answer 9

The urban migration

Question 10

Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.

Answer 10

Charlies A Lindbergh

Question 11

A concert music composer who merged traditional elements with jazz. Created a new sound

Answer 11

George Gershwin

Question 12

Produced intensely colored canvases and captured the grandeur of New York. Recorded an America of realities and dreams.

Answer 12

Georgia O’Keefe

Question 13

First American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Among the eras most outspoken critics.

Answer 13

Sinclair Lewis

Question 14

Coined the term Jazz age in 1920s. Revealed the negative side to the gain of freedom.

Answer 14

F Scott Fitzgerald

Question 15

Wrote Poems celebrating youth and life of Independence

Answer 15

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Question 16

Criticized the glorification of war. Author

Answer 16

Ernest Hemingway

Question 17

Why did the idea of hero shipping come about in the 1920s

Answer 17

They brought on hope and enlightenment after the horrific

times that they had gone through with the depression and the war.