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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. What is the title of the essay by Langston Hughes that delves into the racial stumbling block Negro artists face?
(a) "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
(b) "The Artist and its Race".
(c) "The Race and the Artist".
(d) "The Race to be an Artist".

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

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

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

5. When was "Fifty Years" written?
(a) 50 years after slavery ends.
(b) The 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) 50 years before slavery begins.
(d) The 50th anniversary of the start of the Civil War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do people in the village go to visit Uncle Monday in "Uncle Monday"?

2. What animal remains by Aunt Judy Bickerstaff in "Uncle Monday" until she begins to doubt herself?

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

4. What technique does Hurston discuss in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?

5. Who believes Africans did not add any words to the English language?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Fenton Johnson story "The Banjo Player".

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

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

4. Discuss what Hughes notices in most Negro families in relation to their perception of whites in "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".

5. Describe the term "jook".

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

7. Describe Uncle Monday in "Uncle Monday" by Hurston.

8. Discuss what happens in "Go Down Death" by James Weldon Johnson.

9. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

10. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

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