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

2. What does Alain Locke suggest in "The New Negro" about the "old Negro"?
(a) The "old Negro" is very much active.
(b) The "old Negro" desires what the "new Negro" wants.
(c) The "old Negro"has completely died out.
(d) The "old Negro" is nothing more than a myth or ideal.

3. What ethnicity is Paul in the essay "Cane"?
(a) Italian.
(b) Indian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) It never says directly.

4. What is the title of the essay by Langston Hughes that delves into the racial stumbling block Negro artists face?
(a) "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
(b) "The Race and the Artist".
(c) "The Race to be an Artist".
(d) "The Artist and its Race".

5. What is the influence of the Negro's heritage artwork compared to in "The Negro-Art Hokum"?
(a) Migration in China.
(b) European descent.
(c) Indian descent.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose idea was that the Negro race is part of a greater destiny?

2. Who gives a list of leaders who fall under the category of the "Old Crowd"?

3. What does Locke notice about the bars and clubs in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?

4. How does the section "Art and Propaganda" end?

5. What does the mother mean when she tells her son to "not act like a nigger" in the essay by Hughes?

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