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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 always one step higher than the Negroes, according to Schuyler?

2. What is the name of the host and novelist in Thurman's story?

3. What is the title of Jess Redmond's poem?

4. What does the author say about Negro men and slave trade in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?

5. What is the title of the poem by Hughes that explains how life is not always a straight path, but a journey to rise?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the term "jook".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Compare and contrast the roles of the Negro performers from the two provided interviews, "Conversation with James P. Johnson" by Tom Davin and an "Interview with Eubie Blake, October 16, 1973" by Nathan Irvin Huggins.

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