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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 is the title of James Weldon Johnson's book that details events about Negro artists in general and poets in particular?
(a) "Negro Artist's and Poet's Revisited".
(b) "Study of Negro Artistry".
(c) "Study of Works by Negroes".
(d) "The Book of American Negro Poetry".

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

3. What animal remains by Aunt Judy Bickerstaff in "Uncle Monday" until she begins to doubt herself?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A crocodile.
(c) A snake.
(d) An alligator.

4. What did the police officer of Johnson's essay think the wife was doing on the street corner?
(a) Acting drunk.
(b) About to jay walk.
(c) Waiting for someone.
(d) Soliciting.

5. What is the title of McKay's poem where people gather around a lynched man?
(a) "Lynched: Past and Present".
(b) "To Witness Lynching".
(c) "The Lynched".
(d) "The Lynching".

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the essay "Race Pride"?

2. How many poems of Countee Cullen's follow "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual" in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage"?

3. What question does Brown end his poem "Remembering Nat Turner" with?

4. What type of music is in "The Banjo Player"?

5. Who wrote "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"?

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