US Harlem Renaissance Writers MCQs with Answer
Who is often referred to as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Zora Neale Hurston
c) Countee Cullen
d) Alain Locke
Answer: d) Alain Locke
Which author wrote the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Zora Neale Hurston
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: c) Zora Neale Hurston
Who wrote the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?
a) Countee Cullen
b) Langston Hughes
c) Claude McKay
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: b) Langston Hughes
The poem “If We Must Die” was written by:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Countee Cullen
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: b) Claude McKay
Which writer is known for his poetry collection “Color?
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Jean Toomer
d) Alain Locke
Answer: c) Jean Toomer
The play “The Emperor Jones” was written by:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Jean Toomer
d) Eugene O’Neill
Answer: d) Eugene O’Neill
Who authored the novel “Cane”?
a) Zora Neale Hurston
b) Claude McKay
c) Langston Hughes
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: d) Jean Toomer
Which writer co-wrote the play “Mule Bone” with Langston Hughes?
a) Claude McKay
b) Zora Neale Hurston
c) Jean Toomer
d) Alain Locke
Answer: b) Zora Neale Hurston
The poem “The Weary Blues” was penned by:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Countee Cullen
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: b) Langston Hughes
Who is known for the novel “Home to Harlem?
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Zora Neale Hurston
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: a) Claude McKay
Which writer was also a prominent civil rights activist and leader of the NAACP?
a) Claude McKay
b) James Weldon Johnson
c) Jean Toomer
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b) James Weldon Johnson
The short story “The Gilded Six-Bits” was written by:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Zora Neale Hurston
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: c) Zora Neale Hurston
Who wrote the novel “Not Without Laughter”?
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Countee Cullen
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: d) Langston Hughes
The poem “Heritage” was composed by:
a) Claude McKay
b) Countee Cullen
c) Langston Hughes
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: b) Countee Cullen
Who wrote the influential essay “The New Negro”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Countee Cullen
d) Alain Locke
Answer: d) Alain Locke
The poem “The Creation” is attributed to:
a) Claude McKay
b) Countee Cullen
c) Langston Hughes
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: d) James Weldon Johnson
Who is known for the poem “The Ballad of the Brown Girl”?
a) Countee Cullen
b) Langston Hughes
c) Claude McKay
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: a) Countee Cullen
The author of “Black No More” is:
a) Zora Neale Hurston
b) Langston Hughes
c) Claude McKay
d) George S. Schuyler
Answer: d) George S. Schuyler
Who wrote the poem “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Countee Cullen
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: a) Langston Hughes
The novel “Plum Bun” was authored by:
a) Claude McKay
b) Zora Neale Hurston
c) Langston Hughes
d) Jessie Redmon Fauset
Answer: d) Jessie Redmon Fauset
Who wrote the poem “Yet Do I Marvel”?
a) Countee Cullen
b) Langston Hughes
c) Claude McKay
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: a) Countee Cullen
The novel “The Blacker the Berry” was written by:
a) Claude McKay
b) Zora Neale Hurston
c) Langston Hughes
d) Wallace Thurman
Answer: d) Wallace Thurman
Who authored the play “The Mule-Bone”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Zora Neale Hurston
c) Claude McKay
d) Alain Locke
Answer: a) Langston Hughes
The poem “Copper Sun” is associated with:
a) Countee Cullen
b) Claude McKay
c) Langston Hughes
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: a) Countee Cullen
Who is known for the novel “The Conjure-Man Dies”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Rudolph Fisher
d) Countee Cullen
Answer: c) Rudolph Fisher
The novel “Jonah’s Gourd Vine” is attributed to:
a) Zora Neale Hurston
b) Claude McKay
c) Langston Hughes
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: a) Zora Neale Hurston
Who wrote the poem “The Boll Weevil”?
a) Claude McKay
b) Jean Toomer
c) Countee Cullen
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b) Jean Toomer
The author of “The Ways of White Folks” is:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Jean Toomer
c) Claude McKay
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: a) Langston Hughes
Who is known for the short story “Spunk”?
a) Zora Neale Hurston
b) Claude McKay
c) Jean Toomer
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) Zora Neale Hurston
The author of “Banjo” is:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Countee Cullen
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: a) Claude McKay
Who wrote the novel “Black Boy”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Countee Cullen
d) Richard Wright
Answer: d) Richard Wright
The poem “Her Lips Are Copper Wire” is attributed to:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Countee Cullen
d) Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Answer: d) Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Who is known for the poem “For a Poet”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Countee Cullen
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: c) Countee Cullen
The author of “Quicksand” is:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Zora Neale Hurston
d) Nella Larsen
Answer: d) Nella Larsen
Who wrote the poem “Incident”?
a) Claude McKay
b) Countee Cullen
c) Langston Hughes
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: b) Countee Cullen
The novel “Nigger Heaven” was written by:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Countee Cullen
d) Carl Van Vechten
Answer: d) Carl Van Vechten
Who authored the novel “Passing”?
a) Nella Larsen
b) Langston Hughes
c) Claude McKay
d) Countee Cullen
Answer: a) Nella Larsen
The poem “The Harlem Dancer” is associated with:
a) Claude McKay
b) Countee Cullen
c) Langston Hughes
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: a) Claude McKay
Who is known for the novel “Plum Bun”?
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Jessie Redmon Fauset
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: c) Jessie Redmon Fauset
The author of “Dusk of Dawn” is:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Jean Toomer
d) W. E. B. Du Bois
Answer: d) W. E. B. Du Bois
Who wrote the poem “From the Dark Tower”?
a) Countee Cullen
b) Langston Hughes
c) Claude McKay
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: a) Countee Cullen
The author of “Black Thunder” is:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Countee Cullen
d) Arna Bontemps
Answer: d) Arna Bontemps
Who is known for the novel “The Walls of Jericho”?
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Rudolph Fisher
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: c) Rudolph Fisher
The poem “Tableau” is associated with:
a) Claude McKay
b) Countee Cullen
c) Langston Hughes
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: d) Jean Toomer
Who wrote the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”?
a) Zora Neale Hurston
b) Claude McKay
c) Jean Toomer
d) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Answer: d) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The author of “Home to Harlem” is:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Countee Cullen
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: a) Claude McKay
Who wrote the poem “A Brown Girl Dead”?
a) Claude McKay
b) Countee Cullen
c) Langston Hughes
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: b) Countee Cullen
The author of “The Bone of Contention” is:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Jean Toomer
d) Dorothy West
Answer: d) Dorothy West
Who is known for the poem “If We Must Die”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Claude McKay
c) Countee Cullen
d) James Weldon Johnson
Answer: b) Claude McKay
The author of “The Walls of Jericho” is:
a) Claude McKay
b) Langston Hughes
c) Rudolph Fisher
d) Jean Toomer
Answer: c) Rudolph Fisher