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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. What is the title of the poem that expresses McKay's love and hatred for America?
2. How many poems of Countee Cullen's follow "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual" in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage"?
3. What is the title of McKay's poem where people gather around a lynched man?
4. In Thurman's story, who asks why he should focus only on his African roots when he has Indian and German roots as well?
5. Whose idea was that the Negro race is part of a greater destiny?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss what Locke suggest in "Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk Poet".
2. Discuss the significance of the writing style in Cuney's poem, "Conception".
3. Discuss what Hughes notices in most Negro families in relation to their perception of whites in "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
4. Discuss what Blake's interview with Nathan Irvin Huggins is concerned with.
5. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".
6. Discuss what happens in "Go Down Death" by James Weldon Johnson.
7. Discuss what "Fifty Years" by James Weldon Johnson addresses and is significant to.
8. Explain what Schuyler's essay "Our Greatest Gift to America" is about.
9. Discuss Fenton Johnson story "The Banjo Player".
10. Discuss what Hughes addresses in his essay, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Compare and contrast the third section's author's "Afro-American Identity - Who Am I?" (in particular Hughes, Bennett, and Cullen) and how they address the relationship between Negroes and their white counterparts.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the pronunciation and adaptation of the Negroes and the English language. Consider Zora Neale Hurston's works as well as the poem by Cuney called "Conception".
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