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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the ending section of "Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition"?
(a) "To Celebrate Blackness".
(b) "Seeing Blackness".
(c) "Visual Arts: To Celebrate Blackness".
(d) "Visual Arts".

2. According to "Our Greatest Gift to America", where do Negroes frequently spend their time?
(a) Parks.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Bars.
(d) Clubs.

3. 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 Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".
(d) "The Race to be an Artist".

4. What term is coined to mean that African Americans do not produce art specific to their race due to the absorption of American ways?
(a) Afromerican.
(b) Negromerican.
(c) Caucagro.
(d) Aframerican.

5. Who is the author of "Go Down Death"?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Cullen.
(c) Hurston.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first sees Uncle Monday in Hurston's story "Uncle Monday"?

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

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

4. What does Hurston say about Negro art?

5. What does Cullen seem to wonder in her poem "She of the Dancing Feet Sings"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

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

4. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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