Booker T Washington
What state and year was Booker T Washington born in?
A. Connecticut, 1871
B. California, 1871
C. Arkansas, 1870
D. Alabama, 1870
D. Alabama 1870
In which state and year was Hughes born?
A. Missouri, 1902
B. Minnesota, 1902
C. Maryland, 1902
D. Maine, 1902
A. Missouri, 1902
How many African Americans migrated during the Great Migration, from the Jim Crow South to the North and West?
A. 6,741,000
B. 1,500,000
C. 22,000,000
D. 6,000,000
D. 6,000,000
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
Who said it?
Booker T Washington
Who was the biggest critic of Booker T Washington?
A. Martin Luther King Jr.
B. Malcolm X
C. W.E.B. Du Bois
D. President Roosevelt
C. W.E.B. Du Bois
What type of writing style did Hughes use in his writing?
A. complex & flowery
B. short yet metaphorical
C. simple & direct
D. lengthy and visual
C. simple & direct
How long did the Great Migration last?
A. 5 decades (50 years)
B. 6 decades (60 years)
C. 20 years
D. 41 years
B. 6 decades (60 years)
"And far into the night he crooned that tune. The stars went out and so did the moon"
Who said it?
Langston Hughes
Up From Slavery: With which task does Washington think he has a chance of impressing the head teacher?
A. fixing a fence
B. sweeping a room
C. redecorating the school
D. cooking for the poor
B. Sweeping a room
What was Hughes' first book of poetry titled?
A. Montage of a Deferred Dream
B. The Weary Blues
C. Shakespeare in Harlem
D. Mulatto
B. The Weary Blues
What is the name of the "caste system" that was used in the United States?
A. Apartheid
B. Jim Crow
C. Segregation
D. 13th Amendment
B. Jim Crow
"I was so weak in my knees that I could scarcely stand, but I knew nothing else to do but to rise at the command of that voice."
Who said it?
William Holtzclaw
What school was Booker T Washington selected to lead in 1881?
A. Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary
B. Dunbar High School
C. Williamsburg Brace School
D. The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
D. The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
What literary device does Hughes' poem "Mother to Son" use?
A. allegory
B. euphemism
C. dramatic irony
D. extended metaphor
D. extended metaphor
Which of the following authors is a product of the Great Migration?
A. Olaudah Equiano
B. Solomon Northrup
C. Philis Wheatley
D. Toni Morrison
D. Toni Morrison
“Washington’s emphasis on _________ and _________ as a means of Black advancement matched William Holtzclaw’s vision for a community.”
A. vocational training; communication skills
B. leadership; communication skills
C. agricultural skills; vocational training
D. vocational training; military training
C. agricultural skills; vocational training
Hughes' poem "I, too" alludes to which other poem?
A. Langston Hughes "Let America be America Again"
B. Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"
C. Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
D. Gwendolyn Brooks "We Real Cool"
C. Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
What was so crazy about the way a courtroom was run during Jim Crow?
(think about what they "swore" on)
They used 2 separate Bibles to swear on—one for Black people and one for White people.