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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 type of literary writing style is effective in the 3 line poem?

2. What does Hurston say about Negro art?

3. Which poet uses the word "if" as a basis for a sonnet to his mother?

4. What is the title of James Weldon Johnson's book that details events about Negro artists in general and poets in particular?

5. Who is the author of "Song of the Son"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

10. Describe the term "jook".

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

Considering Effie from Fisher's story "Blades of Steel", compare and contrast the women of today's society with the women of the early 1900s. Explain how Effie demonstrates a direct mentality of the women during the early 1900s.

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