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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. At the end of the section "Art and Propaganda", who wanted to be a pianist because of his brother's friends?
(a) Johnson Jameison.
(b) James Johns.
(c) James Patterson.
(d) James P. Johnson.

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

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

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

5. What is the title of Wallace Thurman's story?
(a) "Springtime".
(b) "Infants of Spring".
(c) "Infant".
(d) "Youthful Summer".

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has democracy worked so well in America, according to "Our Greatest Gift to America"?

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

3. What technique does Hurston discuss in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?

4. What is the title of the poem by Hughes that explains how life is not always a straight path, but a journey to rise?

5. How does the section "Art and Propaganda" end?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Compare and contrast Hurtson's ideas with some etymologists in relation to the African dialect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

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

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