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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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. How many pieces of art does the last section in "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition" have?

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

4. What is the title of Jess Redmond's poem?

5. How does Hurston originally define the word "jook"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the significance of the writing style in Cuney's poem, "Conception".

2. Discuss what Georgia Douglas Johnson's poem, "Old Black Men" addresses.

3. Discuss what Blake's interview with Nathan Irvin Huggins is concerned with.

4. Discuss the three facts that Arthur A. Schomburg presents in "The Negro Digs Up His Past".

5. Discuss the idea George S. Schuyler's presents in "The Negro-Art Hokum".

6. Discuss what happens in Wallace Thurman's "Infants of Spring".

7. Discuss what James Weldon Johnson says about Dunbar as a poet in "The Book of American Negro Poetry".

8. Discuss what Locke suggest in "Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk Poet".

9. Discuss what Hughes addresses in his essay, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".

10. Discuss what Locke addresses in "Art or Propaganda".

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