Harlem Renaissance

Which poet began his career with a book of jazz poems titled "The Weary Blues"?

• Claude McKay

• Langston Hughes

• Richard Wright

• Ralph Ellison

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What type of clubs are mentioned as part of the Harlem scene in the 1920s?

• Jazz clubs

• Rock clubs

• Classical music clubs

• Country music clubs

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Which sociologist is quoted in the text?

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Alain Locke

• Booker T. Washington

• Marcus Garvey

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In which essay did Langston Hughes write about the blues being sung by "black, beaten, but unbeatable throats"?

• "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

• "Songs Called the Blues"

• "Montage of a Dream Deferred"

• "The Weary Blues"

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Which novelists and poets are mentioned as owing a debt to the artists of the Harlem Renaissance?

• Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin

• Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck

• Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Rita Dove

• J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, and George R.R. Martin

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What was the Harlem Renaissance also known as?

• The Red Summer

• The Great Migration

• The New Negro Movement

• The Civil Rights Movement

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Where did the Harlem Renaissance take place?

• Chicago

• Cleveland

• Harlem

• Los Angeles

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Who provided documentation of African American life during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

• Richmond Barthe

• Aaron Douglas

• James Van der Zee

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Which artist used Egyptian and West African sources in their art to depict segregation and race?

• Aaron Douglas

• James Van der Zee

• Richmond Barthe

• Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

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Which poet reflected the experiences of working-class Black people in their poetry?

• Langston Hughes

• James Weldon Johnson

• Arthur Schomburg

• Claude McKay

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