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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Art or Propaganda? High or Low Culture?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Garvey, what does he feel is the opposite result of the construction of a great African nation?
(a) Negroes will always work in a country founded by whites.
(b) They will never reach that great nation.
(c) They are constructing a massive fall of the great nation of Africa.
(d) They are being enslaved by this ideology.

2. What is the name of the girl who diffuses the altercation in the barber shop in "Blades of Steel"?
(a) Effy.
(b) Fefe.
(c) Effie.
(d) Fluffy.

3. What does the author of "The Negro Digs Up His Past" conclude with?
(a) He presents an idea that a new day has come for Negroes.
(b) With a poem.
(c) With a song.
(d) With a challenge to the Negro race.

4. Who is the author of "Art or Propaganda"?
(a) Locke.
(b) Hurston.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Domingo.

5. What are the names of McKay's two poems?
(a) "Mulatto" and "America".
(b) "Asia" and "Africa".
(c) "Africa" and "Mulatto".
(d) "America" and "Africa".

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who first sees Uncle Monday in Hurston's story "Uncle Monday"?

3. What does the author say about Negro men and slave trade in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?

4. Why do people in the village go to visit Uncle Monday in "Uncle Monday"?

5. Whose growls are heard by the people at the end of "Uncle Monday"?

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