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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Jess Redmond's poem?
(a) "Night Flies".
(b) "Dead Fires".
(c) "Fire Flies".
(d) "Dead Flies".

2. What is the title of the ending section of "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition"?
(a) "Visual Arts: To Celebrate Blackness".
(b) "Visual Arts".
(c) "To Celebrate Blackness".
(d) "Seeing Blackness".

3. Who is the author of "Fifty Years"?
(a) Domingo.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Toomer.

4. What does Hurston later give credit to a "jook" being?
(a) A song.
(b) A type of movement or dance.
(c) A house.
(d) A food.

5. What type of literary writing style is effective in the 3 line poem?
(a) It uses dramatic irony.
(b) The words are rounded off at the end to mimic the Negro speech.
(c) It uses symbolism.
(d) The words are written in perfect speech.

6. What does the author say about Negro men and slave trade in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?
(a) Some Negro men were active in halting the slave trade.
(b) Some Negro men were active in running the slave trade.
(c) No Negro men were allowed to work the slave trade.
(d) White men forced Negro men to work.

7. At the end of the section "Art and Propaganda", who wanted to be a pianist because of his brother's friends?
(a) Johnson Jameison.
(b) James Patterson.
(c) James Johns.
(d) James P. Johnson.

8. What is the biggest blockage for Negro artists, according to Hughes?
(a) Tendency to mimic lifestyle of whites.
(b) Tendency to discredit their work.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Inequality of wealth.

9. Who is the author of "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?
(a) Hurston.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Arthur A. Schomberg.
(d) Domingo.

10. Why do Negroes mimic according to Hurston?
(a) To feel better.
(b) For the fun; not to be like others.
(c) To be like others.
(d) For money.

11. Who is the author of "Our Greatest Gift to America"?
(a) Schuyler.
(b) Helene Johnson.
(c) McKay.
(d) Domingp.

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

13. When was "Fifty Years" written?
(a) 50 years after slavery ends.
(b) 50 years before slavery begins.
(c) The 50th anniversary of the start of the Civil War.
(d) The 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

14. Who is the author of the poem "Conception"?
(a) Hurston.
(b) Cuney.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Cullen.

15. 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 Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
(c) "The Race and the Artist".
(d) "The Artist and its Race".

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the influence of the Negro's heritage artwork compared to in "The Negro-Art Hokum"?

2. What characteristics are given to Sweetie Mary Carr?

3. What does the author of "Art or Propaganda" believe about the sustainability of art?

4. What is the title of the poem that expresses McKay's love and hatred for America?

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

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