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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 is always one step higher than the Negroes, according to Schuyler?
(a) The next poorest.
(b) The poorest of the poor.
(c) Mechanics.
(d) Farmer's.

2. What does Cullen seem to indicate about heaven in her poem "She of the Dancing Feet Sings"?
(a) That heaven is a very serious place.
(b) That everyone in heaven is really talented.
(c) That heaven is really fun.
(d) That eveyone is pretty in heaven.

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

4. Who is the author of "Song of the Son"?
(a) Domingo.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Toomer.
(d) Randolph.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pieces of art does the last section in "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition" have?

2. What does the author of "The Negro Digs up His Past" attribute his ideology to?

3. What do most of the poems in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage" have in common?

4. Who is the 3 line poem about?

5. What term is coined to mean that African Americans do not produce art specific to their race due to the absorption of American ways?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the term "jook".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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