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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) Eli Whitney.
(b) Phyllis Whitney.
(c) Phil Wheatney.
(d) Phyllis Wheatley.

2. Who is given credit to be the first Negro poet to be able to "rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race"?
(a) Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(b) Paul Doohey.
(c) Paulene Laurence.
(d) Lauren Dunbar.

3. How does the section "Art and Propaganda" end?
(a) With an essay.
(b) With 2 songs.
(c) With 2 interviews.
(d) With 2 poems.

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

5. What does Hurston later give credit to a "jook" being?
(a) A food.
(b) A house.
(c) A song.
(d) A type of movement or dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the 3 line poem about?

2. What is the title of the ending section of "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition"?

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

4. What does the author of "Go Down Death" describe the poem as?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

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

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

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

8. Explain what Schuyler's essay "Our Greatest Gift to America" is about.

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

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

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