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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 3 line poem about?
2. What is the title of the poem that expresses McKay's love and hatred for America?
3. Who is the author of "Fifty Years"?
4. Who is the author of the poem "Conception"?
5. What is Hurston's story "Shouting" about?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss what Hurston examines in "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals".
2. Discuss what Georgia Douglas Johnson's poem, "Old Black Men" addresses.
3. Discuss what Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" addresses.
4. Discuss what happens in "Go Down Death" by James Weldon Johnson.
5. Discuss what Locke addresses in "Art or Propaganda".
6. Discuss what Hughes notices in most Negro families in relation to their perception of whites in "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
7. Discuss the significance of the writing style in Cuney's poem, "Conception".
8. Describe the term "jook".
9. Discuss the idea George S. Schuyler's presents in "The Negro-Art Hokum".
10. Discuss what Hughes addresses in his essay, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Explain how the reader's perception of the first section, "New Negro Radicalism" is unclear on how the ideas and prompts should be viewed. Explain how they present a positive front, negative front or both in their challenges to the Negro race.
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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