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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. Who is the author of "The Negro-Art Hokum"?

2. What does the author of "The Negro Digs Up His Past" conclude with?

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

4. Who is the author of "Our Greatest Gift to America"?

5. How does Hurston originally define the word "jook"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 what Locke addresses in "Art or Propaganda".

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

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

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

9. Compare and contrast Hurtson's ideas with some etymologists in relation to the African dialect.

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

Compare and contrast the common theme and idea of the authors in the first section, "New Negro Radicalism". What defines someone as an "old" or "new" Negro? Explain how these categories emphasize the common mentality of these authors?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the perception and depiction of Harlem in "Voices from the Harlem Renaissance". Compare and contrast the different images we are given of this city in relationship to its inhabitants as well as cultural and artistic connections.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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