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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) An alligator.
(b) A giraffe.
(c) A crocodile.
(d) A snake.

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

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

4. What does the author of "Art or Propaganda" believe about the sustainability of art?
(a) It must have propaganda.
(b) It needs to be durable to last.
(c) It needs a purpose.
(d) Someone has to feel connected to it.

5. What is the name of the host and novelist in Thurman's story?
(a) Matt.
(b) Raymond.
(c) Roger.
(d) Ray.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who arrived in America as a child and was purchased by a man in Boston?

3. What is the title of James Weldon Johnson's book that details events about Negro artists in general and poets in particular?

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

5. What characteristics are given to Sweetie Mary Carr?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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