This 1923 book mixes poems, short stories and a play. Its first part is set among the cane fields of rural Georgia and its second in Washington, D.C. Critics call it a prose poem rather than a novel. Who wrote it?

Trained in anthropology under Franz Boas at Barnard, this writer went back to Eatonville and Polk County, Florida, and to New Orleans, and published the folktales and hoodoo practices she gathered as Mules and Men in 1935. Who was she?

Nella Larsen wrote both Quicksand (1928), about the restless Helga Crane, and Passing (1929), about Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield.

Countee Cullen published his first collection of poems in 1925, while he was still in his early twenties. Which book was it?

This 1928 novel follows Jake Brown, who deserts a wartime labor battalion, lives in London, and comes home to Harlem. It became the first commercial best seller by a Black American novelist. Who wrote it?

In 1927 a poet who also served as executive secretary of the NAACP published God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, written in the voice of the Black folk preacher. Who was he?

Jessie Redmon Fauset's first novel appeared in 1924 and was celebrated at the Civic Club dinner held in New York that March. What was it called?

In 1934 a painter known for flat, silhouetted figures drawn from African masks completed the four-panel mural series Aspects of Negro Life for the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library. Who was he?

In September 1924 a cornet player from New Orleans left Chicago for New York to join Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, and stayed about fourteen months before going back to Chicago to lead his own recording group. Who was he?

On December 4, 1927 a band leader and composer opened at Harlem's Cotton Club, where radio broadcasts from the club carried his orchestra across the country. Who was he?

On February 15, 1923 a singer from Chattanooga recorded "Down Hearted Blues" for Columbia. It sold hundreds of thousands of copies and rescued the label's finances, and she was billed as the Empress of the Blues. Who was she?

He took the title role in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones in New York in 1924, and in 1928 sang "Ol' Man River" as Joe in the London premiere of Show Boat at Drury Lane. Who was he?

On October 2, 1925 a dancer from St. Louis opened in La Revue Nègre at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and became a sensation in Paris, later famous for a dance performed in a skirt of artificial bananas. Who was she?

Shuffle Along opened on Broadway in May 1921 with a book by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles and ran over 500 performances, the first big hit musical written and performed by Black artists. Who composed its music?

Claude McKay's 1919 sonnet ends: "Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!" What was he writing about?

A 1925 sonnet by Countee Cullen closes: "Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: / To make a poet black, and bid him sing!" What tension is Cullen pointing to?

In a June 1926 essay in The Nation, Langston Hughes wrote: "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame." What was he calling for?

At seventeen Langston Hughes wrote a poem that begins "I've known rivers:" and then names the Euphrates, the Congo, the Nile and the Mississippi. What is the poem claiming for Black people?

The title poem of Langston Hughes's 1926 first collection opens "Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon," and sets its singer "Down on Lenox Avenue." What was Hughes building the poem from?

Alain Locke edited a March 1925 special issue of the magazine Survey Graphic called "Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro." Later that year he enlarged it into a hardcover book that gave the movement its name. What was the book?

W. E. B. Du Bois edited the official magazine of the NAACP, where Jessie Redmon Fauset served as literary editor from 1919 to 1926. Which magazine was it?

Charles S. Johnson edited Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, using its literary contests and a March 1924 dinner to introduce young Black writers to New York publishers. Which organization published the magazine?

In November 1926 Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Aaron Douglas brought out a quarterly for younger Black artists, deliberately at odds with their elders' respectability. Only one issue appeared. Name it.

Marcus Garvey built the Universal Negro Improvement Association from a Harlem base and filled Madison Square Garden for its 1920 convention. What was the Black Star Line, which he launched in 1919?

The Cotton Club on Lenox Avenue in Harlem hired Black singers, dancers and band leaders, and for most of the 1920s it also sold tickets to Black and white customers alike.