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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author of "Art or Propaganda" believe about the sustainability of art?

3. Who is the 3 line poem about?

4. What is the name of the host and novelist in Thurman's story?

5. What does the poem "Old Black Men" describe?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of Negro magazines and newspapers during the early 1900s, specifically "The Messenger" and "Fire". What was the purpose of the contents of the works and how does this provide a deeper insight for the reader to better understand the issues of the time?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss James Weldon Johnson's work "Black Manhattan" and the importance of the August 1900 incident and what happened to make this event infamous. Detail the events that were a response to the incident that progressed Negroes to fight for their rights.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the role of the African Nation in "Voices from the Renaissance". Considering "Garveyism" by Randolph and "Africa for Africans" by Garvey, discuss how the authors feel about the nation of Africa in relation to the Negroes in America. How do the authors present a positive or negative ideology for Africa's future?

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