Quiz for The New Negro and the Harlem Renaissance

Choose the best answer to each question.

Question

1. Which of the following ideas would the “New Negro” embrace according to A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen (see Document 21.11)?

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Correct: The answer is d. According to Randolph and Owen, the “New Negro” would embrace the creation of a new political party. The Republicans and the Democrats represent the employers/capitalists. The Negro would rather support a politician who represented working people.
Incorrect: The answer is d. According to Randolph and Owen, the “New Negro” would embrace the creation of a new political party. The Republicans and the Democrats represent the employers/capitalists. The Negro would rather support a politician who represented working people.

Question

2. Americans are granted a jury of one’s peers. How would Marcus Garvey most likely describe a “peer” (see Document 21.12)?

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Correct: The answer is c. Garvey would most likely describe a peer as similar in race. He referred to contemporary judges and jury members as members of “an alien race.”
Incorrect: The answer is c. Garvey would most likely describe a peer as similar in race. He referred to contemporary judges and jury members as members of “an alien race.”

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3. What was Langston Hughes most likely describing in his poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (see Document 21.13)?

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Correct: The answer is a. Hughes described the history of African Americans, from the Middle East at the dawn of mankind, into Africa, and to the southern United States.
Incorrect: The answer is a. Hughes described the history of African Americans, from the Middle East at the dawn of mankind, into Africa, and to the southern United States.

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4. Jean Toomer was born into an upper-class mulatto background in Washington, D.C. In “Reapers” and “November Cotton Flower” (Document 21.14), why do you think Toomer described southern farming even though he had never worked the fields?

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Correct: The answer is b. African American history is inexorably connected to slavery and agriculture in the South.
Incorrect: The answer is b. African American history is inexorably connected to slavery and agriculture in the South.

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5. What gave Bessie Smith the “Down-Hearted Blues” (see Document 21.15)?

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Correct: The answer is b. Smith sang the blues because the man she loved mistreated and left her.
Incorrect: The answer is b. Smith sang the blues because the man she loved mistreated and left her.