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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 is the influence of the Negro's heritage artwork compared to in "The Negro-Art Hokum"?
(a) European descent.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Migration in China.
(d) Indian descent.

2. What is the title of Jess Redmond's poem?
(a) "Night Flies".
(b) "Dead Fires".
(c) "Dead Flies".
(d) "Fire Flies".

3. Why has democracy worked so well in America, according to "Our Greatest Gift to America"?
(a) White's are supreme in this way of living.
(b) It divides the power evenly.
(c) Skin color measures a man's worth.
(d) Negroes are inferior to the government.

4. Who is the author of "Our Greatest Gift to America"?
(a) Domingp.
(b) Schuyler.
(c) McKay.
(d) Helene Johnson.

5. What is Hurston's story "Shouting" about?
(a) Shouting in religious ceremonies.
(b) Shouting in anger.
(c) Shouting in fear.
(d) Shouting in torment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristics are given to Sweetie Mary Carr?

2. In the poem "If We Must Die", what does McKay compare the killings of his race to?

3. Whose idea was that the Negro race is part of a greater destiny?

4. Who argues that Negroes did alter the English language?

5. According to Hughes, what does he find to be a subconscious belief in most Negro homes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss what "Fifty Years" by James Weldon Johnson addresses and is significant to.

2. Discuss what the singing stone is in "Uncle Monday" by Hurston.

3. Describe the term "jook".

4. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

5. Discuss what Hughes notices in most Negro families in relation to their perception of whites in "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".

6. Compare and contrast Hurtson's ideas with some etymologists in relation to the African dialect.

7. Discuss what happens in "Go Down Death" by James Weldon Johnson.

8. Discuss what Blake's interview with Nathan Irvin Huggins is concerned with.

9. Discuss the significance of the writing style in Cuney's poem, "Conception".

10. Discuss what Hughes addresses in his essay, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".

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