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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the influence of the Negro's heritage artwork compared to in "The Negro-Art Hokum"?
(a) Migration in China.
(b) Indian descent.
(c) Nothing.
(d) European descent.

2. What is Hurston's story "Shouting" about?
(a) Shouting in religious ceremonies.
(b) Shouting in torment.
(c) Shouting in anger.
(d) Shouting in fear.

3. How many facts does the author present in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

5. What is the name of the host and novelist in Thurman's story?
(a) Roger.
(b) Matt.
(c) Ray.
(d) Raymond.

6. 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) "The Book of American Negro Poetry".
(d) "Study of Works by Negroes".

7. Who is the author of "A Southern Road"?
(a) Helene Johnson.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Domingo.

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

9. What characteristics are given to Sweetie Mary Carr?
(a) Funny and vulgar.
(b) Crude and funny.
(c) Fat and ugly.
(d) Vulagr and old.

10. What is the title of Wallace Thurman's story?
(a) "Youthful Summer".
(b) "Infant".
(c) "Springtime".
(d) "Infants of Spring".

11. What does the poem "Old Black Men" describe?
(a) They're color.
(b) They're age.
(c) The old men realize life hasn't turned out as they planned.
(d) They're relationships.

12. What is the title of the 3 line poem?
(a) "Conception".
(b) "If We Must Die".
(c) "Old Black Men".
(d) "Dream Variations".

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is given credit to be the first Negro poet to be able to "rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race"?

2. Who is the author of "Song of the Son"?

3. What does the author of "Go Down Death" describe the poem as?

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

5. Which of the following is NOT a poem written by Countee Cullen?

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