The Great Migration

Question 1

Which best describes how the Great Migration affected Northern cities?

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Northern cities grew more diverse as African Americans shared their culture.

Question 2

A poet whose works inspired other Harlem Renaissance poets was

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Claude McKay.

Question 3

Which is the best example of an effect of the Harlem Renaissance on music?

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It brought jazz to a wider American audience.

Question 4

Besides jazz, the Harlem Renaissance was also known for African American

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literature.

Question 5

Zora Neale Hurston collected and wrote about African American

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folk tales.

Question 6

In the early 1900s, the Chicago Defender was

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an African American newspaper.

Question 7

Read the excerpt from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes.What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?* * *Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it explode?According to the poem, the speaker feels that the relationship between whites and African Americans is

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tense and unequal.

Question 8

Who was called the “Shakespeare of Harlem” during the Harlem Renaissance?

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Langston Hughes

Question 9

Which two cities were the most popular destinations during the Great Migration?

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New York and Chicago

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