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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who first sees Uncle Monday in Hurston's story "Uncle Monday"?
(a) Joey Lawrence.
(b) Joeseph Lies.
(c) Lindsey Joeseph.
(d) Joe Lindsay.

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

3. What does Cullen seem to wonder in her poem "She of the Dancing Feet Sings"?
(a) If she can dance.
(b) If she can sing and dance simultaneously.
(c) What her role will be in Heaven.
(d) If she can sing.

4. Who arrived in America as a child and was purchased by a man in Boston?
(a) Eli Whitney.
(b) Phyllis Whitney.
(c) Phyllis Wheatley.
(d) Phil Wheatney.

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

6. What is the title of Hughes's poem that points out that artistic endeavors can release the "hurt in your heart"?
(a) "Hurt Heart".
(b) "Hurt".
(c) "Heart".
(d) "Heat".

7. How does Hurston originally define the word "jook"?
(a) A song.
(b) A type of person.
(c) A bawdy house.
(d) A food.

8. What does the author of "The Negro Digs up His Past" attribute his ideology to?
(a) Self knowledge.
(b) Reclaimed background of the race as a whole.
(c) Self motivation.
(d) His desire to be famous.

9. According to Hughes, what does he find to be a subconscious belief in most Negro homes?
(a) To be white means power.
(b) To be white means wealth.
(c) To be white is better.
(d) That they are inferior to whites.

10. What does the mother mean when she tells her son to "not act like a nigger" in the essay by Hughes?
(a) To act right.
(b) To act rich.
(c) To misbehave.
(d) To not act poor.

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

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

13. In the poem "If We Must Die", what does McKay compare the killings of his race to?
(a) Hogs.
(b) Deer.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Turkey.

14. Who is the author of "Art or Propaganda"?
(a) Locke.
(b) Hurston.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Domingo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do people in the village go to visit Uncle Monday in "Uncle Monday"?

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 is the title of the 3 line poem?

4. How many pieces of art does the last section in "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition" have?

5. How does the section "Art and Propaganda" end?

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