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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 does the author of "The Negro Digs up His Past" attribute his ideology to?
(a) His desire to be famous.
(b) Self motivation.
(c) Self knowledge.
(d) Reclaimed background of the race as a whole.

2. At the end of the section "Art and Propaganda", who wanted to be a pianist because of his brother's friends?
(a) Johnson Jameison.
(b) James P. Johnson.
(c) James Patterson.
(d) James Johns.

3. Who first sees Uncle Monday in Hurston's story "Uncle Monday"?
(a) Lindsey Joeseph.
(b) Joeseph Lies.
(c) Joey Lawrence.
(d) Joe Lindsay.

4. Why has democracy worked so well in America, according to "Our Greatest Gift to America"?
(a) White's are supreme in this way of living.
(b) It divides the power evenly.
(c) Negroes are inferior to the government.
(d) Skin color measures a man's worth.

5. What is the title of the 3 line poem?
(a) "Old Black Men".
(b) "If We Must Die".
(c) "Dream Variations".
(d) "Conception".

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk Poet"?

2. What does the author of "The Negro Digs Up His Past" conclude with?

3. According to "Our Greatest Gift to America", where do Negroes frequently spend their time?

4. What is the name of the woman in "Go Down Death"?

5. What do most of the poems in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage" have in common?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss what Blake's interview with Nathan Irvin Huggins is concerned with.

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

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

4. Discuss the three facts that Arthur A. Schomburg presents in "The Negro Digs Up His Past".

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

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 Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

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

9. Discuss the significance of the writing style in Cuney's poem, "Conception".

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

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