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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition; Visual Arts: To Celebrate Blackness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose growls are heard by the people at the end of "Uncle Monday"?
(a) The crocodile's.
(b) The giraffe's.
(c) The dogs.
(d) The alligator's.

2. What does Locke notice about the bars and clubs in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?
(a) They are now attracting a white clientele.
(b) Whites are prohibited.
(c) Whites are just now being allowed to enter.
(d) Whites are serving Negroes.

3. According to Locke, why have Negroes been treated a certain way?
(a) Lack of love.
(b) Sterotypes.
(c) Lack of money.
(d) Lack of education.

4. What does Hurston later give credit to a "jook" being?
(a) A food.
(b) A type of movement or dance.
(c) A house.
(d) A song.

5. Who is the author of "Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk Poet"?
(a) Locke.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Domingo.
(d) Hurston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author of "The Negro Digs Up His Past" conclude with?

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

3. Who supposedly bewitches the main character of "Luani of the Jungles"?

4. What does Hurston think about the originality of Negro artwork?

5. Who believes Africans did not add any words to the English language?

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