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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reflections on the Renaissance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the "New Negro" believe in?
(a) The rights of equality.
(b) The rights of others and free press and assembly.
(c) The rights to work with whites.
(d) The rights to be wealthy.

2. What type of music is in "The Banjo Player"?
(a) Classical.
(b) Bluegrass.
(c) Blues.
(d) Music of peasant people.

3. What does the main character of "Sweat" do for a living?
(a) Laundry for "white folks".
(b) Keeps house.
(c) Cleans for "white folks".
(d) Cooks for "white folks".

4. Who hates the main character of "Sweat"?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her mom.

5. What does Hurston think about the originality of Negro artwork?
(a) She thinks it is unoriginal.
(b) It's appealing.
(c) It's abstract.
(d) It is original, although often discredited.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Harlem Runs Wild", who is the leader of the Negro Industrial and Clerical Alliance?

2. What does Locke question in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?

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

4. What does Locke attribute to the migration of the "new Negro"?

5. At the end of the section "Art and Propaganda", who wanted to be a pianist because of his brother's friends?

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