Where is New York City between the Hudson and East Rivers, North of Central Park.
100
A mammy is defined as what?
What is an African American servant mother.
100
The speaker eats in the kitchen in "I, Too" because of this reason
What is because they are an African American servant?
200
Langston Hughes wrote this many books of poetry
What is sixteen
200
The Harlem Renaissance was what.
What is movement where African American art flourished.
200
_____ is said to be "like a mammy" in "The Creation."
Who is God?
200
The people will be ashamed in "I, Too" because of this reason
What is they will feel bad because of their racial discrimination?
300
Hughes went to this University.
Where is Columbia University.
300
The Harlem Renaissance took place during these years.
When was after World War I into the 1930's. (1918-1930's)
300
What are the four rivers mentioned in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers?"
What are the Congo, Euphrates, Nile, and Mississippi.
300
Hughes intentionally misspells words in "Homesick Blues" and "Po' Boy Blues" for this reason
What is he wants to speak like African Americans actually spoke?
400
This is Hughes's most famous poem.
What is "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
400
Africans moved to Harlem for two reasons.
What is racial discrimination and looking for jobs.
400
"I, Too" is a direct response to this famous poem.
What is "I Hear America Singing"?
400
High art and folk art are different in these ways.
What is high art uses intelligent language in order to be equal to the whites, whereas folk art uses day to day conversation and expresses African American culture.
500
This person is Hughes's great-great uncle and he held this position.
Who is John Mercer Langston and the first African American man to hold public office.
500
Blues is defined as what
What is musical form created by African Americans.
500
Your soul "grows deep like the river" in this way.
What is time and experience?
500
Helene Johnson uses "meed" instead of reward for this reason in her poem "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem."