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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of "A Southern Road"?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Helene Johnson.
(c) Domingo.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

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

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

6. What is the title of James Weldon Johnson's book that details events about Negro artists in general and poets in particular?
(a) "Study of Negro Artistry".
(b) "Negro Artist's and Poet's Revisited".
(c) "Study of Works by Negroes".
(d) "The Book of American Negro Poetry".

7. How many facts does the author present in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

9. How many poems of Countee Cullen's follow "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual" in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage"?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

10. What does Hurston later give credit to a "jook" being?
(a) A house.
(b) A song.
(c) A food.
(d) A type of movement or dance.

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

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

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

14. 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 Race and the Artist".
(c) "The Race to be an Artist".
(d) "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the poem by Hughes that explains how life is not always a straight path, but a journey to rise?

2. What does Hurston examine in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?

3. What question does Brown end his poem "Remembering Nat Turner" with?

4. 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"?

5. At the end of the section "Art and Propaganda", who wanted to be a pianist because of his brother's friends?

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