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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 is the biggest blockage for Negro artists, according to Hughes?
(a) Inequality of wealth.
(b) Tendency to mimic lifestyle of whites.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Tendency to discredit their work.

2. Who is the essay "Luani of the Jungles" about?
(a) A sailor.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A rabi.

3. What is the essay "To a Dark Girl" about?
(a) A pen pal.
(b) Leaving home.
(c) Growing past slavery.
(d) Growing up.

4. What is the title of McKay's poem where people gather around a lynched man?
(a) "To Witness Lynching".
(b) "The Lynched".
(c) "Lynched: Past and Present".
(d) "The Lynching".

5. What fact does Locke cite at the end of "American Negro" in relation to outsider's perceptions?
(a) They are slowly seeing humans in the Negro race.
(b) They do not understand the Negro race.
(c) They are being studied and not debated about.
(d) They see only what they want to see.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cullen seem to indicate about heaven in her poem "She of the Dancing Feet Sings"?

2. What does the author of "Art or Propaganda" believe about the sustainability of art?

3. What does Locke say unites the "American Negro"?

4. Why has democracy worked so well in America, according to "Our Greatest Gift to America"?

5. Who is the author of "The Negro-Art Hokum"?

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