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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 author of "Fifty Years"?

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

3. What does the author of "The Negro Digs up His Past" attribute his ideology to?

4. What is the title of the 3 line poem?

5. What technique does Hurston discuss in "Spiritual and Neo-Spiritual"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss what Locke addresses in "Art or Propaganda".

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

4. Discuss Hurston's essay "Shouting".

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

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

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 what Hurston examines in "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals".

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the mentality of the upper and middle class Negroes to those of the white race during the early 1900s in America. Consider Langston Hughes's essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the common theme and idea of the authors in the first section, "New Negro Radicalism". What defines someone as an "old" or "new" Negro? Explain how these categories emphasize the common mentality of these authors?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the progression and transition of "old" to "new" leaders by analyzing the beginning works with Georgia Douglas Johnson's poem "Old Black Men". Discuss how important this ideology is to the theme of "Voices from the Harlen Renaissance" as well as the state of society of the 1900s.

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