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Harlem Renaissance

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2hrs 44mins

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1.

Louis Armstrong helped revolutionize this genre of music during the Harlem Renaissance


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE

a)

Gospel

b)

Jazz

c)

Folk

d)

Rhythm

2.

This painting by Jacob Lawerence describes African Americans moving north to find jobs in heavy industries. This phrase was given to describe this "great" journey.

(a)  

3.

Harlem is located in which major city?

(a)  

4.

Park Bench - Poem by Langston Hughes


1 I live on a park bench.

2 You, Park Avenue.

3 Hell of a distance

4 Between us two.


5 I beg a dime for dinner-

6 You got a butler and maid.

7 But I'm wakin' up!

8 Say, ain't you afraid


9 That I might, just maybe,

10 In a year or two,

11 Move on over

12 To Park Avenue?


The speaker of the poem is conveying what?

a)

The difference between sad and happy

b)

The difference between locations

c)

The difference in inequality

d)

The difference between living life

5.

These three organizations for furthering the well being for African Americans were all hardhearted in Harlem

a)

NAACP

b)

National Urban League

c)

Universal Negro Improvement Association

d)

AFL-CIO

e)

Colored National Trade Union

6.

The Crisis was a (a)   that helped jump start many Harlem artists, poets, and songwriters' careers.

7.

Listen to Ella Fitzgerald's Holiday in Harlem. How does she describe the atmosphere in Harlem?


https://youtu.be/1Eqk6nUtU_E?t=193

a)

Inclusive of everyone

b)

Celebration of the renessiance

c)

A divide between race

d)

A somber message played in an upbeat rhythm

8.
What was the "New Negro?"
a)
A new view on how society treated black people
b)
A popular new style of music
c)
A new sense of identity and dignity among blacks
d)
A jazz musician at the Cotton Club
9.

Jacob Lawerence's painting Bar and Grill depicts which segregation laws as made famous by Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896?

(a)  

10.

When the Great Migration occurred, what happened as a result politically?

a)

heightened racism and Civil War

b)

rising literacy and the formation of civil rights groups

c)

falling literacy and a moral decline