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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 argues that Negroes did alter the English language?
(a) No one.
(b) Some etymologists.
(c) Hurston.
(d) Hughes.

2. Who is the author of "Song of the Son"?
(a) Randolph.
(b) Toomer.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Domingo.

3. What does the mother mean when she tells her son to "not act like a nigger" in the essay by Hughes?
(a) To misbehave.
(b) To act rich.
(c) To act right.
(d) To not act poor.

4. Who believes Africans did not add any words to the English language?
(a) No one.
(b) Hurston.
(c) Some etymologists.
(d) Hughes.

5. Why do Negroes mimic according to Hurston?
(a) To be like others.
(b) For money.
(c) For the fun; not to be like others.
(d) To feel better.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Fifty Years"?

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

3. Who is the author of the poem "Conception"?

4. What is the influence of the Negro's heritage artwork compared to in "The Negro-Art Hokum"?

5. Who is the author of "Our Greatest Gift to America"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

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 is described in "The Lynching" by Claude McKay.

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

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

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

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

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

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