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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 term is coined to mean that African Americans do not produce art specific to their race due to the absorption of American ways?
(a) Caucagro.
(b) Negromerican.
(c) Afromerican.
(d) Aframerican.

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

3. Who is the 3 line poem about?
(a) God.
(b) The Union Soldiers.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Jesus.

4. What does the author of "The Negro Digs Up His Past" conclude with?
(a) He presents an idea that a new day has come for Negroes.
(b) With a challenge to the Negro race.
(c) With a poem.
(d) With a song.

5. What animal remains by Aunt Judy Bickerstaff in "Uncle Monday" until she begins to doubt herself?
(a) A crocodile.
(b) An alligator.
(c) A giraffe.
(d) A snake.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hurston later give credit to a "jook" being?

3. Who is always one step higher than the Negroes, according to Schuyler?

4. What is the title of McKay's poem where people gather around a lynched man?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the term "jook".

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

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