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

2. What does Fisher note about the Cabaret dancers in his essay, "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"?
(a) Many are inexperienced.
(b) He hates them.
(c) Many are white.
(d) Many are old.

3. What does Domingo hint to about the government's current state of being?
(a) They have deviated from their constitution's laws.
(b) No one cares about the African American race.
(c) The situation's intolerancy and that free press and assembly are not possible.
(d) They are out of control.

4. What does the "old crowd" recommend in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?
(a) Conservative measures.
(b) Radical measures.
(c) Conservative changes.
(d) Radical changes.

5. What does the poem, "Poem", say the author has in common with the "little brown boy"?
(a) She is also a jig.
(b) She too feels repressed.
(c) She is also happy.
(d) She is also brown.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who says "white folks is white" in one of Cullen's poems?

3. What is the name of the police officer who is stabbed and killed in Johnson's essay?

4. What does the poem immediately following "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts" by Countee Cullen address?

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

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