Background
Rivers
Symbolism
Harlem Renaissance
Heritage
100
Columbia University
What college did Hughes attend?
100
Where he built his hut
What is the Congo?
100
The author's tone
What is wise and passionate?
100
A source of inspiration for black artists.
What is Harlem?
100
An African American slave
What is Hughes great-grandmother?
200
1921
What is the year Hughes moved to New York city?
200
Where he bathed when dawns were young
What is the Euphrates?
200
A demonstration of how long his ancestors have been mistreated.
What is the rivers as ancient as the world?
200
Jazz poetry
What is a type of work in the Harlem Renaissance?
200
A white slave owner
What is Hughes great-grandfather?
300
The Weary Blues
What is Hughes's first work of poetry?
300
Where pyramids raised above
What is the Nile?
300
Hughes's relationship with his ancestors
What is deep like rivers?
300
The Harlem Renaissance
What is the cultural movement in 1920s' ?
300
His father
What is not an important role in Hughes's life?
400
the literary magazine
What is the club Hughes was involved in in high school?
400
When Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans
What is the Mississippi?
400
The type of housing his ancestors had
What is I built my hut?
400
Where Harlem was located
What is New York City?
400
An important theme in Hughes's poem.
What is slavery?
500
The Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem
What is the place where Hughes was buried?
500
My soul has grown deep like rivers
What is my soul?
500
The blood shed throughout his ancestors' history.
What is the flow of human blood in human veins?
500
known as the "New Negro Movement"
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
The places described in Hughes's poem to demonstrate racism.
What is the rivers?
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