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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reflections on the Renaissance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the conflict in "Sweat"?
(a) Love.
(b) Sykes's beatings.
(c) Deceit.
(d) Delia's husband is sleeping with another woman.

2. What must the "New Negro" be willing to do in "A New Crowd - What Is He"?
(a) Demand equal pay.
(b) Work long, hard hours.
(c) Heed the law of self-preservation.
(d) Become wealthy.

3. What is the title of Marcus A. Garvey's essay that follows "Garveyism"?
(a) If We Must Die".
(b) "The New Negro".
(c) "Africa for the Africans".
(d) "The New Negro- What Is He".

4. What do most of the poems in the section "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage" have in common?
(a) They are full or irony.
(b) They have unclear meanings.
(c) They are full of symbolism.
(d) They have clear meanings.

5. What is the title of the poem by Hughes that explains how life is not always a straight path, but a journey to rise?
(a) "Run to Rise".
(b) "Mother to Son".
(c) "Dream Variations".
(d) "Song for a Dark Girl".

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the boxer from the essay "Wedding Day" leave America to go to?

2. Who cuts Cozzens with a razor from Pop Overton's shop in "Blades of Steel"?

3. What does Domingo hint to about the government's current state of being?

4. What does McKay describe in "A Long Way from Home"?

5. Who is the 3 line poem about?

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