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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. 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?
(a) Dr. Parkes.
(b) Dr. Park.
(c) Dr. Perkins.
(d) Dr. P.

2. 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"?
(a) Lauren Dunbar.
(b) Paulene Laurence.
(c) Paul Laurence Dunbar.
(d) Paul Doohey.

3. What type of literary writing style is effective in the 3 line poem?
(a) The words are rounded off at the end to mimic the Negro speech.
(b) It uses symbolism.
(c) The words are written in perfect speech.
(d) It uses dramatic irony.

4. In the poem "If We Must Die", what does McKay compare the killings of his race to?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Deer.
(c) Hogs.
(d) Genocide.

5. How many pieces of art does the last section in "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition" have?
(a) 26.
(b) 20
(c) 51.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mother mean when she tells her son to "not act like a nigger" in the essay by Hughes?

2. How does Hurston originally define the word "jook"?

3. What is the title of the ending section of "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition"?

4. How many poems of Countee Cullen's follow "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual" in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

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

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

7. Discuss what Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" addresses.

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

9. Discuss what Locke addresses in "Art or Propaganda".

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

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