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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says there is a "decadent strain" in the works of the Negro artists due to their lack of connection to its roots, in Thurman's story?
(a) Dr. Perkins.
(b) Dr. Parkes.
(c) Dr. Park.
(d) Dr. P.

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

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

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

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

6. Why has democracy worked so well in America, according to "Our Greatest Gift to America"?
(a) Negroes are inferior to the government.
(b) Skin color measures a man's worth.
(c) It divides the power evenly.
(d) White's are supreme in this way of living.

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

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

9. 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".

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

11. Whose growls are heard by the people at the end of "Uncle Monday"?
(a) The crocodile's.
(b) The alligator's.
(c) The giraffe's.
(d) The dogs.

12. What does Hurston examine in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?
(a) Spirtuality.
(b) The originis of spirits.
(c) The origins of hymns.
(d) Ghosts.

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

14. Who is the author of "The Negro-Art Hokum"?
(a) Shuylee.
(b) George Shultz.
(c) George S. Schuyler.
(d) Geroge Smith.

15. What technique does Hurston discuss in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?
(a) Breathing in songs and sermons.
(b) Diction.
(c) The technique of sounds production.
(d) The technique to conjure spirits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most of the poems in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage" have in common?

2. Who arrived in America as a child and was purchased by a man in Boston?

3. What is Hurston's story "Shouting" about?

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

5. Who is always one step higher than the Negroes, according to Schuyler?

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