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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 does the poem "Old Black Men" describe?
(a) The old men realize life hasn't turned out as they planned.
(b) They're relationships.
(c) They're color.
(d) They're age.

2. What characteristics are given to Sweetie Mary Carr?
(a) Crude and funny.
(b) Fat and ugly.
(c) Vulagr and old.
(d) Funny and vulgar.

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

4. Who is the author of "The Negro-Art Hokum"?
(a) Shuylee.
(b) Geroge Smith.
(c) George Shultz.
(d) George S. Schuyler.

5. Who is the author of "Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk Poet"?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Hurston.
(c) Locke.
(d) Domingo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argues that Negroes did alter the English language?

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?

3. Why do Negroes mimic according to Hurston?

4. Why do people in the village go to visit Uncle Monday in "Uncle Monday"?

5. Who is given credit to be the first Negro poet to be able to "rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Discuss what James Weldon Johnson says about Dunbar as a poet in "The Book of American Negro Poetry".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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