Quiz  /  Writers of the Harlem Renaissance Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who wrote the novel Cane?

  • Jean Toomer
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Aimé Césaire
  • Alain Locke

  • 2. 
    Where was Claude McKay born?

  • United States
  • Spain
  • Jamaica
  • Brazil

  • 3. 
    Who, in 1930, became the first black woman to win a Guggenheim fellowship?

  • Nella Larsen
  • Dorothy West
  • Alice Walker
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset

  • 4. 
    How did the magazine Opportunity generate interest in African American writing during the 1920s and ’30s?

  • Global tours for writers
  • Billboards
  • Free concerts
  • Literary contests

  • 5. 
    Which literary magazine deeply influenced the Harlem Renaissance despite collapsing after only one issue?

  • Harper’s Magazine
  • Fire!!
  • Kenyon Review
  • The Crisis

  • 6. 
    Who wrote the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God?

  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Claude McKay
  • Langston Hughes
  • Zora Neale Hurston

  • 7. 
    What was Langston Hughes’s first book of poetry?

  • The Weary Blues
  • The Panther and the Lash
  • Invisible Man
  • The People, Yes

  • 8. 
    Who edited the magazine The Crisis from 1919 to 1926?

  • Jessie Redmon Fauset
  • Mary Miller
  • Langston Hughes
  • Walter White

  • 9. 
    Which prominent poet of the Harlem Renaissance was also a schoolteacher from 1934 until his death, in 1946?

  • Mary Miller
  • Langston Hughes
  • Walter White
  • Countee Cullen

  • 10. 
    Who compiled The New Negro (1925), an anthology that helped to familiarize Americans with the Harlem Renaissance?

  • Alain Locke
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Richard Nugent
  • Regina M. Anderson

  • 11. 
    Regina M. Anderson was which of the following?

  • Librarian
  • Playwright
  • All of these
  • Patron of the arts
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