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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 name of the woman in "Go Down Death"?

2. What is Hurston's story "Shouting" about?

3. When was "Fifty Years" written?

4. What does Hurston examine in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?

5. What is the title of Hughes's poem that points out that artistic endeavors can release the "hurt in your heart"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss what Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" addresses.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Wallace Thurman's "Infants of the Spring" and how its message contradicts with the desire for equality for Negroes. Compare and contrast how Dr. Parkes suggestion for the literary talents to "reach back to their African roots" digresses from seeing the Negro race as equal to whites.

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 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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