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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the essay by Langston Hughes that delves into the racial stumbling block Negro artists face?
(a) "The Artist and its Race".
(b) "The Race and the Artist".
(c) "The Race to be an Artist".
(d) "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".

2. According to Hughes, what does he find to be a subconscious belief in most Negro homes?
(a) That they are inferior to whites.
(b) To be white means wealth.
(c) To be white is better.
(d) To be white means power.

3. What did the police officer of Johnson's essay think the wife was doing on the street corner?
(a) Acting drunk.
(b) Waiting for someone.
(c) About to jay walk.
(d) Soliciting.

4. What does the essay "Afro-American Fragment" address?
(a) Their fragmented lifestyles.
(b) Their fragments of love.
(c) The lack of personal information most have about their homeland, Africa.
(d) Their fragments of art work.

5. Who is the author of "Fifty Years"?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Toomer.
(c) James Weldon Johnson.
(d) Domingo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems to be the consensus of the essays in "New Negro Radicalism"?

2. What is the influence of the Negro's heritage artwork compared to in "The Negro-Art Hokum"?

3. What will the new leader not rest until he achieves in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?

4. What are the names of McKay's two poems?

5. How many pieces of art does the last section in "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition" have?

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