Harlem Renaissance Test

Question 1

The Harlem Renaissance ran roughly from (blank) and was focused in Harlem, New York.

Answer 1

1910-1930

Question 2

Renaissance means (blank)

Answer 2

“rebirth or revival”

Question 3

The Harlem Renaissance movement included (blanks)

Answer 3

artists, writers, musicians, and performers

Question 4

The Harlem Renaissance defines the (blank) and celebrates (blank)

Answer 4

defines the African American heritage and celebrates their identity as Americans

Question 5

Allusions in Harlem Renaissance writing often refer to (blank)

Answer 5

African American spirituals

Question 6

In Harlem Renaissance writing, superficial stereotypes (blank)

Answer 6

superficial stereotypes later revealed to be characters capable of complex moral judgement

Question 7

What are the effects of the Harlem Renaissance movement?

Answer 7

The period gave birth to a new form of religious music called “gospel music”. Blues and Jazz started to be transmitted across America on the radios.

Question 8

Zora Neal Hurston considers (blank) her home and birthplace

Answer 8

Eatonville

Question 9

considers Eatonville her home and birthplace

Answer 9

Zora Neal Hurston

Question 10

left home and spent the next 10 years traveling and working dead end jobs to afford to eat

Answer 10

Zora Neal Hurston

Question 11

What did Zora do for 10 years after leaving home?

Answer 11

she left home and spent the next 10 years traveling and working dead-end jobs to afford to eat

Question 12

She wanted her diploma so she lied about her age making herself pass as 16 and took advantage of getting an education at Howard Prep School

Answer 12

Zora Neal Hurston

Question 13

What did Zora do to get her diploma?

Answer 13

she lied about her age making herself pass as 16 and took advantage of getting an education at Howard Prep School

Question 14

she was the only African American at Barnard at the time

Answer 14

Zora Neal Hurston

Question 15

Zora was the first African American to go where?

Answer 15

Barnard

Question 16

What are Zora Neal Hurston’s famous works?

Answer 16

Mules and Men, Their Eyes were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road

Question 17

Who was inspired by Zora Hurston, searched for her grave, and found it in a snake infested overgrown cemetery, later having a headstone made and placed on her grave?

Answer 17

Alice Walker

Question 18

What does Zora’s grave say?

Answer 18

“Zora Neal Hurston: A Genius of the South”

Question 19

What did Alice Walker do?

Answer 19

When she was a young author inspired by Zora Hurston, who searched for her grave, and found it in a snake infested overgrown cemetery, she had a gravestone made and placed on Hurston’s grave

Question 20

Was a war correspondent in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War

Answer 20

Langston Hughes

Question 21

What did Langston Hughes do in 1937?

Answer 21

he was a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War

Question 22

wrote a column for the Chicago Defender

Answer 22

Langston Hughes

Question 23

Langston Hughes wrote a column for the

Answer 23

Chicago Defender

Question 24

What were main influences on Langston Hughes’s poems?

Answer 24

Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman

Question 25

What were Langston Hughes' famous works?

Answer 25

"A Dream Deferred", "Let America be America Again", "I too", and Not Without Laughter

Question 26

Main influences in his poetry were Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman

Answer 26

Langston Hughes

Question 27

born in Jamaica

Answer 27

Claude McKay

Question 28

Where was Claude McKay born?

Answer 28

in Jamaica: Festus Claudius McKay in 1889

Question 29

What pseudonym did Claude McKay publish his works under?

Answer 29

Eli Edwards

Question 30

published his works under the pseudonym Eli Edwards

Answer 30

Claude McKay

Question 31

A large portion of Claude McKay's works were published in this radical magazine

Answer 31

The Liberator

Question 32

his works were published in The Liberator-a radical magazine

Answer 32

Claude McKay

Question 33

Explored communism and even visited the Soviet Union, but then found Catholicism late in life and focused on it rather than Communism

Answer 33

Claude McKay

Question 34

Claude McKay explored (blank) even visiting the Soviet Union, but he later found (blank) and focused on that instead

Answer 34

Communism; Catholicism

Question 35

What are Claude McKay's famous works?

Answer 35

"If We Must Die", Home to Harlem, "Harlem Shadows", and Amiable with Big Teeth

Question 36

joined the black traveling show known as the Tennessee Ten

Answer 36

Florence Mills

Question 37

Fell ill to tuberculosis

Answer 37

Florence Mills

Question 38

Most associated with singing "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird"

Answer 38

Florence Mills

Question 39

His paintings depicted images of African American life and struggles

Answer 39

Aaron Douglas

Question 40

One of his most famous works is called "Aspects if Negro Life"

Answer 40

Aaron Douglas

Question 41

He is known as "the father of black American art"

Answer 41

Aaron Douglas

Question 42

He taught Latin in order to pay for his tuition for college

Answer 42

Paul Robeson

Question 43

"Ol' Man River" was his signature tune

Answer 43

Paul Robeson

Question 44

Othello was one of his most famous works

Answer 44

Paul Robeson

Question 45

In 1927, she received the Nathaniel Thayer prize

Answer 45

Lois Mailou Jones

Question 46

She served as a cultural ambassador to Africa in 1970

Answer 46

Lois Mailou Jones

Question 47

Her art incorporated African heritage and black American experience

Answer 47

Lois Mailou Jones

Question 48

He started studying piano at age 7

Answer 48

Duke Ellington

Question 49

He wrote his first song working at a soda fountain

Answer 49

Duke Ellington

Question 50

the famous work, "Take the A Train" was composed for his band and is also his most famous tune

Answer 50

Duke Ellington

Question 51

Eleanora Fagan is her real name

Answer 51

Billie Holiday

Question 52

She was arrested for illegal drug use

Answer 52

Billie Holiday

Question 53

Lester Young gave her the name Lady Day

Answer 53

Billie Holiday

Question 54

She adopted 12 children from various countries, calling them her "Rainbow Tribe"

Answer 54

Josephine Baker

Question 55

The show La Folie de Jour included her infamous banana skirt

Answer 55

Josephine Baker

Question 56

During her time as a Civil Rights Activist, she participated in the March on Washington in 1963

Answer 56

Josephine Baker

Question 57

He had four wives

Answer 57

Louis Armstrong

Question 58

His band was first called the Hot Five

Answer 58

Louis Armstrong

Question 59

His song "What a Wonderful World" was recorded and released in 1967

Answer 59

Louis Armstrong

Question 60

attended Tuskegee Institute

Answer 60

Claude McKay

Question 61

where did Claude McKay attend school in Alabama?

Answer 61

Tuskegee Institute