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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Hughes, what does he find to be a subconscious belief in most Negro homes?
2. What is the title of James Weldon Johnson's book that details events about Negro artists in general and poets in particular?
3. According to "Our Greatest Gift to America", where do Negroes frequently spend their time?
4. Who is the author of "Art or Propaganda"?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Uncle Monday in "Uncle Monday" by Hurston.
2. Explain what Schuyler's essay "Our Greatest Gift to America" is about.
3. Discuss what Hurston examines in "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals".
4. Discuss the three facts that Arthur A. Schomburg presents in "The Negro Digs Up His Past".
5. Discuss what Hughes addresses in his essay, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
6. Discuss what is described in "The Lynching" by Claude McKay.
7. Discuss the significance of the writing style in Cuney's poem, "Conception".
8. Discuss what Georgia Douglas Johnson's poem, "Old Black Men" addresses.
9. Discuss what James Weldon Johnson says about Dunbar as a poet in "The Book of American Negro Poetry".
10. Discuss what Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" addresses.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast how the term renaissance applies to the literature of "Voices from the Harlem Renaissance" and how America had its own literary renaissance in the early 1900s.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast how "The Negro Digs up His Past" by Arthur A. Schomburg and "George S. Schuyler's "Our Greatest Gift to America" discuss the idea that the greatest of the Negro race are dissociated with the race as a whole and what both find in the Negroes reaction to this idea.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the roles of the Negro performers from the two provided interviews, "Conversation with James P. Johnson" by Tom Davin and an "Interview with Eubie Blake, October 16, 1973" by Nathan Irvin Huggins.
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