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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the name of the woman in "Go Down Death"?
(a) Carolyn.
(b) Carol.
(c) Caroline.
(d) Charlize.

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

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

7. What type of music is in "The Banjo Player"?
(a) Bluegrass.
(b) Classical.
(c) Blues.
(d) Music of peasant people.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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) Lauren Dunbar.
(c) Paul Doohey.
(d) Paul Laurence Dunbar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of McKay's poem where people gather around a lynched man?

2. 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?

3. Which poet uses the word "if" as a basis for a sonnet to his mother?

4. Who is the author of "A Southern Road"?

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

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