Chapter 21

Quiz for Document 21-5: Langston Hughes, “The Weary Blues” (1926)

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Question 1

Poet Langston Hughes connects the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance to traditional African American musical expression by quoting

Question 2

Hughes’s repeated expressions “O Blues!” and “Sweet Blues!” represent what well-known and popular characteristic of traditional African American musical expression?

Question 3

The movement that brought large numbers of rural southern African Americans, along with the blues, to northern urban centers in the early twentieth century is known as the