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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. How many facts does the author present in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?

2. What is the title of the poem by Hughes that explains how life is not always a straight path, but a journey to rise?

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

4. Which poet uses the word "if" as a basis for a sonnet to his mother?

5. In the poem "If We Must Die", what does McKay compare the killings of his race to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

6. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

7. Describe the term "jook".

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

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

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

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

Compare and contrast the beginning of the book's literature with the end of the book's literature. How do the theme, ideas, and challenges of the authors at the beginning like Domingo, McKay and Randolph differ from the authors at the end like DuBois and Hughes? How do these works progress like the mentality of the Negroes during that time?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the relationships of the couples in "Sweat" and "Long Black Song" by Hurston and Wright respectively. Discuss what these two stories suggest about Negro couples and the Negro man in general.

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