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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. Which of the following is NOT a poem written by Countee Cullen?

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

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

4. What does Cullen seem to indicate about heaven in her poem "She of the Dancing Feet Sings"?

5. How many facts does the author present in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the third section's author's "Afro-American Identity - Who Am I?" (in particular Hughes, Bennett, and Cullen) and how they address the relationship between Negroes and their white counterparts.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the element of rage in the sixth section's literature "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage". Compare and contrast the perception of what this emotional rage represents, the current state of the Negroes or a prompt to fight for their equality.

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