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Harlem Renaissance #1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the Harlem Renaissance also known as?

a)

The New Negro Movement

b)

The Great Migration

c)

The Red Summer

d)

The Civil Rights Movement

2.

Where did the Harlem Renaissance take place?

a)

Chicago

b)

Cleveland

c)

Los Angeles

d)

Harlem

3.

Which artist portrayed the beauty of the Black body through sculpture?

a)

Richmond Barthe

b)

James Van der Zee

c)

Aaron Douglas

d)

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

4.

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

a)

Richmond Barthe

b)

James Van der Zee

c)

Aaron Douglas

d)

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

5.

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

a)

Richmond Barthe

b)

James Van der Zee

c)

Aaron Douglas

d)

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

6.

Who was the first African American woman to receive a U.S. government commission for her art?

a)

Richmond Barthe

b)

James Van der Zee

c)

Aaron Douglas

d)

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

7.

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

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

James Weldon Johnson

c)

Arthur Schomburg

d)

Claude McKay

8.

Who co-wrote the song 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

James Weldon Johnson

c)

Arthur Schomburg

d)

Claude McKay

9.

Who developed one of the most significant collections of printed material about the Black Diasporic experience?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

James Weldon Johnson

c)

Arthur Schomburg

d)

Claude McKay

10.

Who wrote poetry in both Jamaican dialect and 'straight English'?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

James Weldon Johnson

c)

Arthur Schomburg

d)

Claude McKay

11.

Who were the blueswomen singers known as 'The Mother of Blues' and 'The Empress of Blues'?

a)

Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith

b)

Duke Ellington and Eubie Blake

c)

Billie Holiday and Ma Rainey

d)

Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday

12.

Who helped popularize big band style jazz music in the United States?

a)

Ma Rainey

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Eubie Blake

d)

Billie Holiday

13.

Who was one of the first Black Americans to compose a major Broadway Musical?

a)

Ma Rainey

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Eubie Blake

d)

Billie Holiday

14.

Whose song 'Strange Fruit' is credited with being the first protest song of the Civil Rights era?

a)

Ma Rainey

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Eubie Blake

d)

Billie Holiday

15.

What did Langston Hughes strive to reflect in his poetry?

a)

The authentic Black American experience

b)

The Eurocentric literary sensibilities

c)

The beauty of the Black body

d)

The emerging Black middle class