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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Negroes mimic according to Hurston?
(a) For money.
(b) To be like others.
(c) To feel better.
(d) For the fun; not to be like others.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Whose idea was that the Negro race is part of a greater destiny?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Hurston.
(c) Toomer.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

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

9. What do most of the poems in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage" have in common?
(a) They are full of symbolism.
(b) They are full or irony.
(c) They have clear meanings.
(d) They have unclear meanings.

10. What does Hurston say about Negro art?
(a) It's symmetrical and angular.
(b) It's fluid.
(c) It's easy on the eye.
(d) It's harsh to the eye.

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

12. According to "Our Greatest Gift to America", where do Negroes frequently spend their time?
(a) Bars.
(b) Clubs.
(c) Libraries.
(d) Parks.

13. 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) If she can sing.
(d) What her role will be in Heaven.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the ending section of "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition"?

2. In Thurman's story, who asks why he should focus only on his African roots when he has Indian and German roots as well?

3. What does Hurston think about the originality of Negro artwork?

4. How many poems of Countee Cullen's follow "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual" in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage"?

5. Who argues that Negroes did alter the English language?

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