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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 Locke question in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?
(a) How Negro art forms were formed.
(b) What makes something art.
(c) The ancestry of art.
(d) The popularity of Negro arts.

2. Who argues that Negroes did alter the English language?
(a) No one.
(b) Some etymologists.
(c) Hurston.
(d) Hughes.

3. In "Africa for the Africans", what does Domingo say about the enslavement of Negroes?
(a) Negroes haves been manipulated into killing and enslaving Negroes.
(b) Enslavement still exists today.
(c) Africa enslaved the most slaves before the US Civil War.
(d) They were all enslaved once.

4. Who supposedly bewitches the main character of "Luani of the Jungles"?
(a) A gypsy.
(b) A Negro sailor.
(c) A fortune teller.
(d) A young Negro woman.

5. Who is the author of "Go Down Death"?
(a) Hughes.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Cullen.
(d) Hurston.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Domingo, what are the men of the "Old Crowd" filled with?

2. What must the "New Negro" be willing to do in "A New Crowd - What Is He"?

3. Who is the author of "A Negro Nation Within the Nation"?

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

5. What did the police officer of Johnson's essay think the wife was doing on the street corner?

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