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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 say about Negro men and slave trade in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?

2. Whose idea was that the Negro race is part of a greater destiny?

3. What question does Brown end his poem "Remembering Nat Turner" with?

4. What does Hurston think about the originality of Negro artwork?

5. What do most of the poems in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage" have in common?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the term "jook".

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

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

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

Compare and contrast how "The Negro Digs up His Past" by Arthur A. Schomburg and "George S. Schuyler's "Our Greatest Gift to America" discuss the idea that the greatest of the Negro race are dissociated with the race as a whole and what both find in the Negroes reaction to this idea.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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