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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. What is the name of the girl who diffuses the altercation in the barber shop in "Blades of Steel"?

2. Who advocates the construction of a "great nation in Africa" in "Africa for the Africans"?

3. In which essay does Garvey outline the specifics of his plan to establish an empire in Africa?

4. Who wrote the essay "Race Pride"?

5. Who supposedly bewitches the main character of "Luani of the Jungles"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss how James Weldon Johnson describes Harlem in "Black Manhattan".

2. Describe Randolph's description of how the "new crowd" should behave in his essay "A New Crowd - A New Negro".

3. Discuss what Locke questions in "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts".

4. Describe what W. E. B. DuBois's essay "Race Pride" addresses.

5. Describe how Alain Locke's "The New Negro" defines the "new negro" as.

6. Discuss what happens in Zora Neale Hurston's story "Sweat".

7. Describe the question Randolph poses in his essay "A New Crowd - A New Negro".

8. Discuss what Wallace Thurman's editorial discusses about magazines aimed at Negroes.

9. Describe how Domingo finds any person ever accused of being involved with race riots in his essay "Race Pride".

10. Discuss what occurred in response to the August 1900 incident.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the reader's perception of the first section, "New Negro Radicalism" is unclear on how the ideas and prompts should be viewed. Explain how they present a positive front, negative front or both in their challenges to the Negro race.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the beginning of the book's literature with the end of the book's literature. How do the theme, ideas, and challenges of the authors at the beginning like Domingo, McKay and Randolph differ from the authors at the end like DuBois and Hughes? How do these works progress like the mentality of the Negroes during that time?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the roles of the Negro performers from the two provided interviews, "Conversation with James P. Johnson" by Tom Davin and an "Interview with Eubie Blake, October 16, 1973" by Nathan Irvin Huggins.

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