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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Art or Propaganda? High or Low Culture?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Hughes's poem that points out that artistic endeavors can release the "hurt in your heart"?
(a) "Heart".
(b) "Hurt".
(c) "Heat".
(d) "Hurt Heart".

2. At the end of the section "Art and Propaganda", who wanted to be a pianist because of his brother's friends?
(a) James Johns.
(b) Johnson Jameison.
(c) James Patterson.
(d) James P. Johnson.

3. Which of the following is NOT a poem written by Countee Cullen?
(a) "For a Poet".
(b) "Yet Do I Marvel".
(c) "To John Keets, Poet, At Springtime".
(d) "Annabelle Lee".

4. What does Johnson say about the Negro Manhattan?
(a) It's the most beautiful and healthful.
(b) It's dilapidated.
(c) It's overpopulated.
(d) He loves it.

5. Who is the essay "Sweat" about?
(a) Hurston's life.
(b) Hot summers in Mississippi.
(c) Delia.
(d) Dede.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says there is a "decadent strain" in the works of the Negro artists due to their lack of connection to its roots, in Thurman's story?

2. What are the names of McKay's two poems?

3. Who wrote "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"?

4. What is the title of Jess Redmond's poem?

5. What is the title of the ending section of "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition"?

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