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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "Fifty Years"?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Toomer.
(c) James Weldon Johnson.
(d) Domingo.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who is always one step higher than the Negroes, according to Schuyler?
(a) The next poorest.
(b) Mechanics.
(c) Farmer's.
(d) The poorest of the poor.

9. What is the title of the poem by Hughes that explains how life is not always a straight path, but a journey to rise?
(a) "Dream Variations".
(b) "Run to Rise".
(c) "Mother to Son".
(d) "Song for a Dark Girl".

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

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

12. What does Cullen seem to indicate about heaven in her poem "She of the Dancing Feet Sings"?
(a) That eveyone is pretty in heaven.
(b) That heaven is really fun.
(c) That everyone in heaven is really talented.
(d) That heaven is a very serious place.

13. Why has democracy worked so well in America, according to "Our Greatest Gift to America"?
(a) Negroes are inferior to the government.
(b) It divides the power evenly.
(c) White's are supreme in this way of living.
(d) Skin color measures a man's worth.

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

15. 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) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the poem "Old Black Men" describe?

3. What does Cullen seem to wonder in her poem "She of the Dancing Feet Sings"?

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

5. What is the title of the 3 line poem?

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