WorksheetsHarlem Renaissance Review #2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
TRUE OR FALSE: one significance of the Harlem Renaissance was that it created pride in and control over how the black experience was represented in American culture.
TRUE
FALSE
Two popular forms of music during the Harlem Renaissance were ______________.
jazz and swing
classical and alternative
blues and reggae
hip hop and K-pop
One unique thing about the Amateur Night performances at the Apollo Theater is _________.
the audience plays a role in judging the performers
the performers perform behind a curtain so the audience can't see them
there is no audience and the acts are judged by other performers
the performers have to pay to be able to play at the Apollo Theater
The Apollo theater is named after _____________.
Percy Apollo, the second owner of the Apollo Theater
The Apollo spaceship, which was said to be able to travel the farthest in space
Anton Apollo Ohno, Olympic speedskater
Apollo, the Greek god of sun, entertainment, and poetry
On the stage at the Apollo Theater, Amateur Night performers touch the ________ in hopes the audience will be favorable to them.
Heisman Trophy
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
First dollar bill earned at the Apollo
Tree of Hope
The speaker in the poem "Theme for English B" is ___________.
Langston Hughes
the instructor of a college course
an African American college student
a musician during the Harlem Renaissance
The poem begins with a college instructor’s assignment for students to _____________.
go home and write a page about themselves
enroll in another English course
challenge themselves with a 10-page reflection
write about the ways the students and instructor are different
The speaker in "Theme for English B" directs his thoughts to his city in line 18, where he says: __________.
"Winston-Salem, you are my hometown."
"I'm in a New York state of mind."
"Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way."
“Harlem, I hear you.”
In the poem “To America” by James Weldon Johnson, the line, “Our eyes fixed forward on a star” represents _____.
looking to celebrities for our examples
looking forward with hope or optimism
the Statue of Liberty
striving for space exploration
In “To America,” the repetition of “s” and “w” sounds in the line, “Strong, willing sinews in your wings” is an example of ____________ (repetition of sounds within lines of poetry).
simile
hyperbole
personification
alliteration
