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 does the "New Negro" believe in?
(a) The rights of equality.
(b) The rights of others and free press and assembly.
(c) The rights to work with whites.
(d) The rights to be wealthy.

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

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

4. What does Johnson say about the Negro Manhattan?
(a) It's dilapidated.
(b) It's overpopulated.
(c) He loves it.
(d) It's the most beautiful and healthful.

5. What seems to be the consensus of the essays in "New Negro Radicalism"?
(a) To resist enslavement of the same race.
(b) To accept all men as eqaul.
(c) First steps forward are to eliminate current leaders.
(d) To become prideful of one's heritage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What essay concludes with the idea that labor organizations should "harness the discontent of Negroes" in order to obtain "working class emancipation"?

2. What is the main character of "Sweat" afraid of?

3. What is the title of Marcus A. Garvey's essay that follows "Garveyism"?

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

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

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