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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. What follows the essay "A Long Way from Home"?
(a) 2 descriptive poems.
(b) A catalogue of events.
(c) A map.
(d) A diary entry.

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

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

4. What does the author of "Art or Propaganda" believe about the sustainability of art?
(a) It needs to be durable to last.
(b) It must have propaganda.
(c) It needs a purpose.
(d) Someone has to feel connected to it.

5. Who is the author of "The Negro-Art Hokum"?
(a) George Shultz.
(b) Shuylee.
(c) George S. Schuyler.
(d) Geroge Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hurston's story "Shouting" about?

2. What seems to be the consensus of the essays in "New Negro Radicalism"?

3. Which poet uses the word "if" as a basis for a sonnet to his mother?

4. What is said that the "New Negro" will not allow from politicians in "The New Negro - What Is He"?

5. How does Hurston originally define the word "jook"?

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