View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the section "Art and Propaganda" end?
(a) With 2 songs.
(b) With an essay.
(c) With 2 interviews.
(d) With 2 poems.

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

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) No Negro men were allowed to work the slave trade.
(c) Some Negro men were active in halting the slave trade.
(d) Some Negro men were active in running the slave trade.

6. What is the title of the poem by Hughes that explains how life is not always a straight path, but a journey to rise?
(a) "Run to Rise".
(b) "Dream Variations".
(c) "Song for a Dark Girl".
(d) "Mother to Son".

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. What is the title of the poem that expresses McKay's love and hatred for America?
(a) "The Dual Relationship in America".
(b) "America".
(c) "Mixed Emotions".
(d) "The Duality of Life".

12. 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"?
(a) Paulene Laurence.
(b) Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(c) Paul Doohey.
(d) Lauren Dunbar.

13. What is the title of the essay by Langston Hughes that delves into the racial stumbling block Negro artists face?
(a) "The Artist and its Race".
(b) "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
(c) "The Race to be an Artist".
(d) "The Race and the Artist".

14. Which of the following is NOT a poem written by Countee Cullen?
(a) "Annabelle Lee".
(b) "For a Poet".
(c) "To John Keets, Poet, At Springtime".
(d) "Yet Do I Marvel".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Our Greatest Gift to America"?

2. Who is the author of "The Negro-Art Hokum"?

3. According to Hughes, what does he find to be a subconscious belief in most Negro homes?

4. What type of music is in "The Banjo Player"?

5. What is the title of Wallace Thurman's story?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 535 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample