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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy buy Nicey at the end of "City Love"?
(a) A purse.
(b) Shoes.
(c) A hat.
(d) Dinner.

2. What is the title of the ending section of "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition"?
(a) "Visual Arts".
(b) "Visual Arts: To Celebrate Blackness".
(c) "Seeing Blackness".
(d) "To Celebrate Blackness".

3. What aspect of the Negro culture does Locke discuss?
(a) The spiritualitywas non-existent.
(b) The physicality was missing.
(c) The spiritual aspect was beaten down.
(d) The spiritual aspect was supported.

4. Who believes Africans did not add any words to the English language?
(a) Some etymologists.
(b) Hurston.
(c) No one.
(d) Hughes.

5. Who is the author of "Go Down Death"?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Cullen.
(c) Hurston.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of literary writing style is effective in the 3 line poem?

2. What fact does Locke cite at the end of "American Negro" in relation to outsider's perceptions?

3. Who is the author of "Song of the Son"?

4. What do the police refuse in response to the murdered police officer in Johnson's essay?

5. What technique does Hurston discuss in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?

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