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What is Harlem Renaissance?
Music
Langston Hughes
Misc.
100
Where is Harlem located?
New York
100

Name the music genre that was popular at this time?

Jazz 

100

Name a poem by Langston Hughes

One Way Ticket, Mother to Son, Dreams, Harlem

100
In 1927, this famous basketball team played their first game.
The Harlem Globetrotters
200
The Harlem Renaissance inspired art, literature and music. True or False?
True
200

Name one of the famous night clubs in Harlem

Cotton Club

200

'He did a lazy sway/ he did a lazy sway' is an example of this literary device.

Repetition

200

This Harlem Renaissance writer went to high school in Cleveland

Langston Hughes

300

What event contributed to the rising Black population in Harlem?

The Great Migration

300

Name a famous musician from the Harlem Renaissance.

Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington

300

"What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" is an example of which literary device?

simile

300

What is a rent party?

Harlem residents threw rent parties to raise money to pay their rent. While these parties were energetic and fun, they also demonstrated the exploitation and hardship Black Americans endured.

400

What two events occurred at the same time as the Harlem Renaissance?

World War I and Great Depression

400

Why did they make the Blues?

Because it sang a song about all the hardships and discrimination that blacks had to deal with during the 1920's through the 1930's.

400

"Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly" is an example of which literary device?

metaphor

400

What does the prefix re- mean?

again, repeat

500
Harlem became the largest concentration of African Americans during this time. True or False?
True
500

What was one of the most popular dances during this movement?

Lindy Hop, The Charleston, the Black Bottom

500

When did Langston Hughes become famous?

1926

500

What does the word function mean?

How something works or operates