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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 do most of the poems in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage" have in common?
(a) They have clear meanings.
(b) They have unclear meanings.
(c) They are full or irony.
(d) They are full of symbolism.

2. Who is the author of "A Southern Road"?
(a) Domingo.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Helene Johnson.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

3. How many poems of Countee Cullen's follow "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual" in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage"?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

5. Who is the author of the poem "Conception"?
(a) Hurston.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Cuney.
(d) Cullen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first sees Uncle Monday in Hurston's story "Uncle Monday"?

2. Who believes Africans did not add any words to the English language?

3. Who is the author of "Go Down Death"?

4. What type of literary writing style is effective in the 3 line poem?

5. What characteristics are given to Sweetie Mary Carr?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss what happens in "Go Down Death" by James Weldon Johnson.

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

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

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

6. Describe the term "jook".

7. Discuss what Blake's interview with Nathan Irvin Huggins is concerned with.

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

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

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

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