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

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) "Dream Variations".
(c) "Run to Rise".
(d) "Mother to Son".

3. What does Hurston examine in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) The originis of spirits.
(c) Spirtuality.
(d) The origins of hymns.

4. What is the influence of the Negro's heritage artwork compared to in "The Negro-Art Hokum"?
(a) European descent.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Indian descent.
(d) Migration in China.

5. Whose growls are heard by the people at the end of "Uncle Monday"?
(a) The giraffe's.
(b) The crocodile's.
(c) The dogs.
(d) The alligator's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poet uses the word "if" as a basis for a sonnet to his mother?

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

3. Who is the author of "A Southern Road"?

4. What does the author of "The Negro Digs up His Past" attribute his ideology to?

5. What is the title of Jess Redmond's poem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the term "jook".

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Discuss Fenton Johnson story "The Banjo Player".

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

10. Discuss what the singing stone is in "Uncle Monday" by Hurston.

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