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Harlem Gallery Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 103 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal is mentioned in "A Legend of Versailles"?
(a) A dog.
(b) A bear.
(c) A sheep.
(d) A tiger.

2. What time period does "Lento Grave" discuss?
(a) The 20's.
(b) WWII.
(c) Spanish America War.
(d) Civil War.

3. Who meets at Versailles?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Louis XVI.
(c) June Cleaver.
(d) President Obama.

4. Who are the bad men in America according to the poem "Rendezvous With America"?
(a) Republicans and Democrats.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Ku Klux Klan and anti-Semites.

5. What does the Malay claim in "The Blindness of Scorn" put people on the attack?
(a) Affairs.
(b) Love.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Teasing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the bartender judge the narrator in "An Ex-Judge at the Bar"?

2. What does the bard in "The Bard of Addis Ababa" chant about?

3. Where did the one sharecropper travel in "The Ballad of the Rattlesnake"?

4. Who is the object in "Damascus Bride" fit for?

5. What object does the craftsman in "Damascus Bride" make?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the black men laugh at the farmer in "Old Man Michael"?

2. Why does the narrator in "An Ex-Judge at the Bar" feel guilty, and how does he appease this guilt?

3. How does the story of the sheep and the wolf in "The Dictionary of the Wolf" symbolize racism?

4. Describe Tolson's vision of a poet in the "The Poet."

5. In "A Scholar Looks at an Oak," how is the black man represented?

6. What is the significance of the the sign in "The Town of Fathers" that reads "The Blackest Land / And The Whitest People"?

7. In "Dark Symphony," how does Tolson suggest black men formed a brotherhood?

8. What is the lesson that Tolson puts forth in "When Great Dogs Fight"?

9. What is the meaning of the bones of both the snake and the man are left in the dessert in "The Ballad of the Rattlesnake"?

10. Who are the bad people that Tolson mentions in his poem "Rendezvous with America," and why does he feel the need to mention them?

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