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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. Why do people in the village go to visit Uncle Monday in "Uncle Monday"?
(a) To hear his stories.
(b) For his craft.
(c) To take pictures.
(d) To be cured.

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

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

4. What does the author say about Negro men and slave trade in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?
(a) No Negro men were allowed to work the slave trade.
(b) Some Negro men were active in halting the slave trade.
(c) Some Negro men were active in running the slave trade.
(d) White men forced Negro men to work.

5. What is the title of McKay's poem where people gather around a lynched man?
(a) "The Lynching".
(b) "To Witness Lynching".
(c) "Lynched: Past and Present".
(d) "The Lynched".

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Wallace Thurman's story?

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

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

4. Whose growls are heard by the people at the end of "Uncle Monday"?

5. Who says there is a "decadent strain" in the works of the Negro artists due to their lack of connection to its roots, in Thurman's story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Discuss what is described in "The Lynching" by Claude McKay.

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

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

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