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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 animal remains by Aunt Judy Bickerstaff in "Uncle Monday" until she begins to doubt herself?
(a) A crocodile.
(b) A giraffe.
(c) An alligator.
(d) A snake.

2. What is the name of the woman in "Go Down Death"?
(a) Caroline.
(b) Charlize.
(c) Carol.
(d) Carolyn.

3. What is the title of the ending section of "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition"?
(a) "To Celebrate Blackness".
(b) "Seeing Blackness".
(c) "Visual Arts".
(d) "Visual Arts: To Celebrate Blackness".

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT a poem written by Countee Cullen?

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

4. What term is coined to mean that African Americans do not produce art specific to their race due to the absorption of American ways?

5. Who is the author of "Song of the Son"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss what Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" addresses.

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

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

4. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

5. Discuss what "Fifty Years" by James Weldon Johnson addresses and is significant to.

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

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

8. Compare and contrast Hurtson's ideas with some etymologists in relation to the African dialect.

9. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

10. Discuss what is described in "The Lynching" by Claude McKay.

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