Q 01/05

Which poet was working as a hotel busboy in Washington when he shared his verses with Vachel Lindsay?

A) Frank Marshall Davis

B) Langston Hughes

C) Sterling Brown

D) Arna Bontemps

Answer · why

B) Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes so impressed the older poet that Lindsay announced he had discovered a new Black poet. His first book, The Weary Blues, followed in 19...

Q 02/05

Which Harlem nightclub, run by gangster Owney Madden, hired Black entertainers but seated only white customers?

A) Small's Paradise

B) Minton's Playhouse

C) Cotton Club

D) Ubangi Club

Answer · why

C) Cotton Club

Cotton Club owner Madden was a bootlegger who took over boxer Jack Johnson's Club Deluxe, renamed it and used it to sell his own beer to wealthy downt...

Q 03/05

Which novelist, raised in the all-Black town of Eatonville, Florida, collected Southern folklore in Mules and Men?

A) Zora Neale Hurston

B) Nella Larsen

C) Jessie Redmon Fauset

D) Dorothy West

Answer · why

A) Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston died in 1960 and lay in an unmarked Florida grave until 1973, when admirers finally gave her a headstone.

Q 04/05

Which mass movement of Black Southerners to Northern cities from the 1910s made Harlem a Black cultural capital?

A) The Freedom Rides

B) The Underground Railroad

C) The Exoduster Movement

D) The Great Migration

Answer · why

D) The Great Migration

The Great Migration carried about six million Black Americans out of the rural South between 1910 and 1970, and Harlem's writers and musicians were of...

Q 05/05

Which Washington-born bandleader, nicknamed for his dapper dress and noble bearing, composed Mood Indigo?

A) Count Basie

B) Duke Ellington

C) Earl Hines

D) Jelly Roll Morton

Answer · why

B) Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington got the nickname from boyhood friends, then wrote or co-wrote more than a thousand pieces, the largest recorded personal legacy in jazz...