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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 does Hurston think about the originality of Negro artwork?
(a) It's abstract.
(b) It is original, although often discredited.
(c) It's appealing.
(d) She thinks it is unoriginal.

2. 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) "Song for a Dark Girl".
(b) "Mother to Son".
(c) "Dream Variations".
(d) "Run to Rise".

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

4. What is the title of Hughes's poem that points out that artistic endeavors can release the "hurt in your heart"?
(a) "Heart".
(b) "Hurt".
(c) "Heat".
(d) "Hurt Heart".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Negro-Art Hokum"?

2. What characteristics are given to Sweetie Mary Carr?

3. What is the name of the woman in "Go Down Death"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the term "jook".

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

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

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

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

7. Discuss what Hurston examines in "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals".

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

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

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

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