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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 first sees Uncle Monday in Hurston's story "Uncle Monday"?

2. What does Hurston examine in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?

3. What is the title of the poem that expresses McKay's love and hatred for America?

4. When was "Fifty Years" written?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss the three facts that Arthur A. Schomburg presents in "The Negro Digs Up His Past".

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the common theme and idea of the authors in the first section, "New Negro Radicalism". What defines someone as an "old" or "new" Negro? Explain how these categories emphasize the common mentality of these authors?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast how the term renaissance applies to the literature of "Voices from the Harlem Renaissance" and how America had its own literary renaissance in the early 1900s.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the progression and transition of "old" to "new" leaders by analyzing the beginning works with Georgia Douglas Johnson's poem "Old Black Men". Discuss how important this ideology is to the theme of "Voices from the Harlen Renaissance" as well as the state of society of the 1900s.

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