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1. Who wrote the novel Cane?

2. Where was Claude McKay born?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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