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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 always one step higher than the Negroes, according to Schuyler?

2. What is the title of James Weldon Johnson's book that details events about Negro artists in general and poets in particular?

3. Who argues that Negroes did alter the English language?

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

5. According to Hughes, what does he find to be a subconscious belief in most Negro homes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Discuss what Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" addresses.

6. Discuss the idea George S. Schuyler's presents in "The Negro-Art Hokum".

7. Discuss Schuyler's opinion of democracy.

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

9. Discuss what happens in Wallace Thurman's "Infants of Spring".

10. Describe the term "jook".

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

Explain what Locke means when he uses the term "American Negro". Also discuss how this term fits with his idea of Negroes behavior as a stereotype.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the relationships of the couples in "Sweat" and "Long Black Song" by Hurston and Wright respectively. Discuss what these two stories suggest about Negro couples and the Negro man in general.

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