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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 a tyrant made of?
(a) A fool and a big ego.
(b) A big ego and money.
(c) Wealth and anger.
(d) A fool and a little man.

2. What does the white god in "The Idols of the Tribe" eat?
(a) Frogs.
(b) Meat.
(c) Tofu.
(d) Vegetables.

3. What is the white man's philosophy according to "Mu"?
(a) Power over understanding.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Money is the root of all evil.
(d) Blues.

4. What does the narrator in "Beta" claim you can explore art with?
(a) Your tongue.
(b) Your elbows.
(c) Your hair.
(d) Your toes.

5. What should the viewer of art never doubt according to "Delta"?
(a) Their interpretation.
(b) The history of art.
(c) The aritst.
(d) The inks used.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is art to the curator in "Gamma"?

2. Who is Abraham Lincoln's mother in "Abraham Lincoln of Rock Springs Farm"?

3. How does the narrator of "The Idols of the Tribe" describe the black god?

4. What places does the narrator discuss in "Alpha"?

5. Who does the Golden Age occur with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tolson address tyranny in the poem "Tapestries of Time"?

2. How does the narrator define himself in "E.&O.E."?

3. Why does Doctor Nkomo feel that life and art are linked?

4. In "Pi" it is written that art without limits can climb mountains. What is meant by this?

5. What does the poem "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia" mean when it suggests that America is the narrator's mother and Liberia is his wife.

6. What is the danger of worshiping false idols according to Tolson?

7. What is Tolson's opinion on tyrants as seen in the poem "A Long Head to a Round Head"?

8. What might have been the reason Tolson elects to use the Greek alphabet to separate his poem Harlem Gallery?

9. Why does the poem "The Idols of the Tribe" open with a quote from Hitler?

10. How does the nickname African-China come about in the poem "African China"?

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