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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 essay by Langston Hughes that delves into the racial stumbling block Negro artists face?

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

3. When was "Fifty Years" written?

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

5. What characteristics are given to Sweetie Mary Carr?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the term "jook".

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

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

4. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

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

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

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

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

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

10. Discuss what happens in Wallace Thurman's "Infants of Spring".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the reader's perception of the first section, "New Negro Radicalism" is unclear on how the ideas and prompts should be viewed. Explain how they present a positive front, negative front or both in their challenges to the Negro race.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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