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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who cuts Cozzens with a razor from Pop Overton's shop in "Blades of Steel"?
(a) Eight-ball.
(b) Pop Overton.
(c) Effie.
(d) Roger.

3. What does the boy buy Nicey at the end of "City Love"?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Shoes.
(c) A purse.
(d) A hat.

4. What was formed as a response to the police's refusals in Johnson's essay?
(a) Citizen Protection.
(b) Leagues of Prtection.
(c) Protection Gangs.
(d) Citizens Protective League.

5. According to Domingo, what are the men of the "New Crowd" filled with?
(a) A will to fight fire with fire.
(b) Hatred.
(c) A burning passion for equality.
(d) Desrie to become equal.

6. What characteristic does the attitude of the "New Crowd" take?
(a) Apprehensive.
(b) Optimistic.
(c) Radical.
(d) Motivated.

7. What is suggested that the whites must do in "Race Pride"?
(a) Leave Asia and African countries or accept all men as equal.
(b) Leave Asian and African countries.
(c) Accept men as equal.
(d) Stand a fight the fight.

8. What does the poem, "Poem", say the author has in common with the "little brown boy"?
(a) She is also brown.
(b) She too feels repressed.
(c) She is also happy.
(d) She is also a jig.

9. Who is the essay "Luani of the Jungles" about?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A rabi.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A sailor.

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

11. What ethnicity is Paul in the essay "Cane"?
(a) It never says directly.
(b) Italian.
(c) Indian.
(d) Spanish.

12. What is the main character of "Sweat" afraid of?
(a) Heights.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Love.
(d) Snakes.

13. According to Garvey, what does he feel is the opposite result of the construction of a great African nation?
(a) They are being enslaved by this ideology.
(b) They are constructing a massive fall of the great nation of Africa.
(c) Negroes will always work in a country founded by whites.
(d) They will never reach that great nation.

14. Where does the boxer from the essay "Wedding Day" leave America to go to?
(a) Italy.
(b) Austria.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Johnson's essay, what is the name of the person who leaves his wife on a street corner, only to find her being harassed?

3. What happens to Sykes?

4. Who is the author of "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?

5. What question is posed in regards to leadership roles of "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?

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