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

2. Who arrived in America as a child and was purchased by a man in Boston?

3. What does Hurston later give credit to a "jook" being?

4. Why do people in the village go to visit Uncle Monday in "Uncle Monday"?

5. Who argues that Negroes did alter the English language?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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".

Essay Topic 3

Explain what Locke means when he uses the term "American Negro". Also discuss how this term fits with his idea of Negroes behavior as a stereotype.

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