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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. How does the narrator of "The Idols of the Tribe" describe the black god?
(a) Narcissist.
(b) Kind.
(c) Vegetarian.
(d) Carnivore.

2. What does the narrator of "Tapestries of Time" want to prevail?
(a) Tyrants.
(b) The educated.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Justice.

3. What is the poem "The Man from Halicarnassus" about?
(a) French history.
(b) A Man from Halicarnassus.
(c) Greek history.
(d) Freedom.

4. In "Omicron," what does Dr. Nkomo insist rules the artist?
(a) Anger.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Money.
(d) Fear.

5. What does the poet of "The Idols of the Tribe" believe is in every society?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Peace.
(c) An unheard voice.
(d) A Hitler figure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does time move on despite in "Tapestries of Time"?

2. What does the Curator think about Hideho Heights in "Xi"?

3. What animal is in "A Long Head to a Round Head"?

4. Whose criticism does not count in "Omicron"?

5. Where is the art in "Beta"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the word tapestries in the poem "Tapestries of Time"?

2. What is the significance of the Harlem Gallery according to Tolson?

3. What role does the Curator play in the Harlem Gallery poems?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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