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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author of "Art or Propaganda" believe about the sustainability of art?
(a) It needs to be durable to last.
(b) It needs a purpose.
(c) Someone has to feel connected to it.
(d) It must have propaganda.

2. What does the author of "The Negro Digs up His Past" attribute his ideology to?
(a) Self motivation.
(b) Reclaimed background of the race as a whole.
(c) His desire to be famous.
(d) Self knowledge.

3. What does the author of "Go Down Death" describe the poem as?
(a) A funeral sermon.
(b) A monologue.
(c) A soliloquy.
(d) An apology.

4. In Thurman's story, who asks why he should focus only on his African roots when he has Indian and German roots as well?
(a) Paulene.
(b) Dr. Parkes.
(c) Paul.
(d) Patrick.

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

6. Which poet uses the word "if" as a basis for a sonnet to his mother?
(a) Dunbar.
(b) Placido.
(c) Dante.
(d) Hughes.

7. Who is the author of "Art or Propaganda"?
(a) Locke.
(b) Hurston.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Domingo.

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

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

10. 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 not act poor.
(c) To misbehave.
(d) To act rich.

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

12. What question does Brown end his poem "Remembering Nat Turner" with?
(a) If Turner is innocent.
(b) If Turner is the murderer.
(c) If he'll remember Turner.
(d) If Turner is now at rest?

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cullen seem to indicate about heaven in her poem "She of the Dancing Feet Sings"?

2. In the poem "If We Must Die", what does McKay compare the killings of his race to?

3. Why do Negroes mimic according to Hurston?

4. When was "Fifty Years" written?

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

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