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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 does Alain Locke suggest in "The New Negro" about the "old Negro"?
(a) The "old Negro" is very much active.
(b) The "old Negro" is nothing more than a myth or ideal.
(c) The "old Negro"has completely died out.
(d) The "old Negro" desires what the "new Negro" wants.

2. Whose idea was that the Negro race is part of a greater destiny?
(a) Hurston.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Toomer.
(d) Hughes.

3. What does the author of "Go Down Death" describe the poem as?
(a) A soliloquy.
(b) A monologue.
(c) An apology.
(d) A funeral sermon.

4. What kind of changes does Locke see in the overall perception of Negroes?
(a) Big, radical changes.
(b) Postive changes.
(c) Small changes.
(d) Negative changes.

5. In "Africa for the Africans", what does Domingo say about the enslavement of Negroes?
(a) Enslavement still exists today.
(b) They were all enslaved once.
(c) Negroes haves been manipulated into killing and enslaving Negroes.
(d) Africa enslaved the most slaves before the US Civil War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Fifty Years"?

2. Which of the following is NOT a poem written by Countee Cullen?

3. What follows the essay "A Long Way from Home"?

4. What is being seen among the heritage of the minorities in "Race Pride"?

5. What term is coined to mean that African Americans do not produce art specific to their race due to the absorption of American ways?

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