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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Jess Redmond's poem?
(a) "Fire Flies".
(b) "Dead Fires".
(c) "Dead Flies".
(d) "Night Flies".

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the author of "The Negro Digs Up His Past" conclude with?
(a) He presents an idea that a new day has come for Negroes.
(b) With a song.
(c) With a poem.
(d) With a challenge to the Negro race.

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

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

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

12. 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".

13. How many pieces of art does the last section in "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition" have?
(a) 25.
(b) 20
(c) 51.
(d) 26.

14. At the end of the section "Art and Propaganda", who wanted to be a pianist because of his brother's friends?
(a) James Johns.
(b) Johnson Jameison.
(c) James P. Johnson.
(d) James Patterson.

15. 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 not act poor.
(d) To misbehave.

Short Answer 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?

2. What characteristics are given to Sweetie Mary Carr?

3. What does Hurston later give credit to a "jook" being?

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

5. Why has democracy worked so well in America, according to "Our Greatest Gift to America"?

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