Harlem Renaisance

1. Which of the following was not a major characteristic of the Harlem Renaissance? B a. It included literature, music, dance, theater, and visual arts. b. It spanned the era from the middle of World War II to the 1970s. c. The Lindy-Hop was a major dance. d. Duke Ellington was a major jazz musician.

 2. Theater in the Harlem Renaissance included vaudeville shows, dramas, and Broadway plays performed by African-Americans. 3. Jazz was the predominant music of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following were predominant jazz artists of the time? e. Fats Waller f. Nella Larsen g. Florence Mills h. Leroy Jones 

 4. What is the name of Langhston Hughes' autobiography? A i. Big Sea j. Color k. Fields of Wonder l. A Long Way from Home 

 5. What is Countee Cullen's "Tableau" about? a m. A black boy and a white boy walking arm in arm. n. A young girl learning to make an apple pie with her grandmother. o. A 22-year-old black man from Harlem going to college and completing a writing assignment. p. An old lady who makes beautiful tablecloths to decorate all the tables at her church's family center.

 6. What is Countee Cullen's poem, "Incident" about? c q. A funeral of a 20-year-old black man who was killed in Boston in a race riot. r. A child stealing clothes from the clothesline. s. An eight-year-old boy whose only memory of Baltimore is a man calling him Nigger. t. A young man who gets accused of assaulting and raping two white women.

 7. In Langston Hughes' "Theme for English B" which of the following best describes the speaker? d u. A teacher of a college English course. v. Born and raised in Harlem. w. Shows great talent in the field of music. x. The only black person in the class. 

 8. Langston