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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In which essay does Garvey outline the specifics of his plan to establish an empire in Africa?
(a) "Defense of the Negro Rioters".
(b) "Race Pride".
(c) "The Future As I See It".
(d) "Garveyism".

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

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

5. What are the names of McKay's two poems?
(a) "America" and "Africa".
(b) "Asia" and "Africa".
(c) "Mulatto" and "America".
(d) "Africa" and "Mulatto".

6. What does Locke notice about the bars and clubs in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?
(a) Whites are serving Negroes.
(b) Whites are prohibited.
(c) Whites are just now being allowed to enter.
(d) They are now attracting a white clientele.

7. 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?
(a) Arthur Harris.
(b) Art Harlem.
(c) Andy Haney.
(d) Arther Mayer.

8. What specifically does Hughes describe in his impression of Harlem?
(a) Music.
(b) Graffiti.
(c) Negroes cuisine.
(d) Underground trains.

9. Who says "white folks is white" in one of Cullen's poems?
(a) Uncle Jem.
(b) Aunt Em.
(c) Aunt Jem.
(d) Uncle Jim.

10. In what essay does the author state that "a Negro will turn on another Negro if ordered"?
(a) "From the Messenger - A Menace to Radicalism".
(b) "If We Must Die".
(c) "Black Manhattan".
(d) "Garveyism".

11. What fact does Locke cite at the end of "American Negro" in relation to outsider's perceptions?
(a) They see only what they want to see.
(b) They are slowly seeing humans in the Negro race.
(c) They do not understand the Negro race.
(d) They are being studied and not debated about.

12. What happens to Sykes?
(a) His mistress leaves him.
(b) A snake bites and kills him.
(c) He is shot.
(d) Delia leaves him.

13. What age does Cullen specifically focus on in her writings?
(a) Infants.
(b) Children.
(c) Teenagers.
(d) Adults.

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

15. What will the new leader not rest until he achieves in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?
(a) Until the new negro has an equal footing.
(b) Until women are seen as equal.
(c) Until he receives national recognition.
(d) Until the old crowd dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "City Love" about?

2. What is said that the "New Negro" will not allow from politicians in "The New Negro - What Is He"?

3. Who is the essay "Sweat" about?

4. What aspect of the Negro culture does Locke discuss?

5. What do the police refuse in response to the murdered police officer in Johnson's essay?

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