WorksheetsCh 5 Lesson 2- Roaring 20s
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 11mins
The Harlem Renaissance refers to
The period when more than six million African Americans migrated out of the South.
The integration of previously all white neighborhoods and schools.
the explosion of a new urban black culture that sought to redefine itself through music, art, and literature
The explosive race riots that erupted to segregation and racial oppression.
African Americans fled from the South in pursuit of
jobs, higher wages, better benefits, bigger cities
jobs, higher wages, escape racism, better education
jobs, higher wages, more hospitable climate, escape slavery
Jobs, higher wages, escape slavery, better education
Which of the following was a major contribution to American popular culture made by African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance?
classical music
jazz music
rock n roll music
country western music
African American jazz composer and pianist in the Harlem Renaissance
Al Capone
Langston Hughes
Red Scare
Duke Ellington
Artist that was known for their paintings of urban (city) settings, and later the deserts of the Southwest.
Georgia O'Keefe
Jacob Lawrence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aaron Copland.
Author that wrote about the fast-ace lifestyle of the 1920s and the newness of the Jazz Age. Most famous book is The Great Gatsby.
Langston Hughes
Jacob Lawrence
George Gershwin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author that wrote books about the struggles of migrant workers and the struggles faced by the poor working class. Most famous book is The Grapes of Wrath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
Duke Ellington
TWO American composers that wrote music that reminded people of U.S. landscapes. One wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" and the other guy wrote "Appalachian Spring."
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Aaron Copland
Painter who illustrated African Americans moving to the Northeast and Midwest during the Great Migration.
Bessie Smith
Langston Hughes
Jacob Lawrence
Georgia O'Keefe
Poet that wrote about the struggles African Americans faced in the United States. Most famous poem is "Dreams."
Langston Hughes
Jacob Lawrence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
Harlem Renaissance musician that played the trumpet, sang, and was nicknamed "Satchmo."
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Benny Goodman
Harlem Renaissance that sung the Blues and about the hard times in life.
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Aaron Copland
Which of the following were AUTHORS / POETS / WRITERS during the Jazz Age?
Langston Hughes
Aaron Copeland
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist and anthropologist of the Harlem Renaissance; one of her most famous novels Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Bessie Smith
Zora Neale Hurston
Josephine Baker
•I am a poet
•My most famous collection of poems is called “Color”
•I encourage racial pride and spoke out against racism
-I married W.E.B. DuBois' daughter
Countee Cullen
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Charles Lindbergh
•I am a writer and a filmmaker
•I wrote about the lives of African Americans living in the South
•I celebrated black culture during the Harlem Renaissance
-I was a cultural anthropologist, too
Zora Neale Hurston
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
Georgia O'Keefe
-I am an author of the Harlem Renaissance
-My most famous book is Invisible Man
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
Langston Hughes
Ralph Ellison
