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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Afro-American Past - History and Folk Tradition; Visual Arts: To Celebrate Blackness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sentiment is suggested about American Negroes in relation to Negroes in other parts of the world?
(a) They desire to go to other parts of the world.
(b) They are better off in America.
(c) They are worse off in America.
(d) They hate other parts of the world.

2. What is Locke describing when he says "its a place inhabited and controlled by Negroes of many different walks of life"?
(a) Africa.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Capetown.

3. According to Locke, how do Negroes respond to their treatment by other races?
(a) They fight back.
(b) They use it as an excuse to behave the way they do.
(c) They allow themselves to be ridiculed.
(d) They back down.

4. Who is the author of "Fifty Years"?
(a) Toomer.
(b) Hughes.
(c) James Weldon Johnson.
(d) Domingo.

5. What essay concludes with the idea that labor organizations should "harness the discontent of Negroes" in order to obtain "working class emancipation"?
(a) "Black Manhattan".
(b) "Garveyism".
(c) "From the Messenger - A Menace to Radicalism".
(d) "If We Must Die".

Short Answer Questions

1. What was formed as a response to the police's refusals in Johnson's essay?

2. What does the author say about Negro men and slave trade in "The Negro Digs Up His Past"?

3. What does Hurston later give credit to a "jook" being?

4. What does Locke say the Negro is willing to work for in "The New Negro"?

5. What does Locke notice about the bars and clubs in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?

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