Intro Harlem Renaissance
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- Q1What time span encompasses the Harlem Renaissance?1900 - 1920's1920's - 1940's1950's - present day1970's - 1990's30s
- Q2What does "renaissance" mean?great battlerebirth or revivalliterary movementart and music30s
- Q3The Harlem Renaissance could best be defined as:An outpouring of creative expression that led to a new black cultural identityA time when African Americans saw greater wealth and opportunity than whites.Southern blacks immigrating to northern cities.A population boom in Harlem led by Haitian and Jamaican immigrants.30s
- Q4Which of the following was NOT a Harlem Renaissance literary writer?Zora Neal HurstonCountee CullenLangston HughesDuke Ellington30s
- Q5Why were southern blacks leaving the South?few schools and high rates of illiteracyAll choices are correctLynch mobslack of jobs and rampant discrimination/segregation30s
- Q6What was considered the "boom" time in American culture?between the Puritan era and Romanticismbetween WWI and the Great Depressionbetween the end of slavery and the beginning of the technological revolutionbetween the Great Depression and the establishment of NASA30s
- Q7What was the mass exodus of African Americans from the South called?The Southern ExodusThe Great MovementThe Great MigrationThe Great Awakening30s
- Q8Approximately how many African Americans moved to Harlem during the Renaissance?500,0001 million750,000175, 00030s
- Q9Which of the following poems was NOT written by Langston Hughes?HarlemIf We Must DieDreamsThe Weary Blues30s
- Q10What was the name of the desegregated theater that allowed African Americans to sit anywhere, not just in the balcony?New York Acting CompanyLafayette TheaterBroadway TheaterHarlem Theater30s
- Q11Which was NOT one of the themes (from the video) addressed in black cultural art during the Renaissance?HopePrideDeathDisappointment30s
- Q12True or False: African Americans had equal rights to whites in Harlem during the RenaissanceTrueFalse30s
- Q13True or False: The formation of organizations like the NAACP triggered the Great Migration.TrueFalse30s
- Q14True or False: The great depression fueled greater opportunities and wages for blacks.FalseTrue30s