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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says that those participating in the riots were acting out of self-defense?
(a) Du Bois.
(b) Domingo.
(c) Garvey.
(d) Randolph.

2. Which of the following does the author of "A New Crowd - A New Negro" NOT describe as a necessary characteristic of a new leader?
(a) Educated.
(b) Radical.
(c) Young.
(d) Handsome.

3. Who wrote "If We Must Die"?
(a) Garvey.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Randolph.
(d) Domingo.

4. What is the title of Marcus A. Garvey's essay that follows "Garveyism"?
(a) "The New Negro- What Is He".
(b) "Africa for the Africans".
(c) If We Must Die".
(d) "The New Negro".

5. How many outcomes does Randolph attribute to Mr. Garvey's ideals in "Garveyism"?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

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

7. What is "City Love" about?
(a) A couple falling in love.
(b) A person falling in love with the city.
(c) A boy and a girl trying to find a hotel room.
(d) Life in the city.

8. Which essay addresses the August 1900 incident?
(a) "Black Manhattan".
(b) "American Negro".
(c) "The New Negro".
(d) "Garrveyism".

9. Who is the author of "Harlem Reviewed"?
(a) Nancy Cunard.
(b) Nicole Cunny.
(c) Nikki Court.
(d) Nicholas Cunard.

10. What does Locke question in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?
(a) The popularity of Negro arts.
(b) How Negro art forms were formed.
(c) What makes something art.
(d) The ancestry of art.

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

12. Who wrote "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"?
(a) Helene Johnson.
(b) Domingo.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Rudolph.

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

14. What does Fisher note about the Cabaret dancers in his essay, "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"?
(a) Many are old.
(b) Many are inexperienced.
(c) Many are white.
(d) He hates them.

15. Who was selected president for the group that was formed in response to the police's refusals?
(a) William Bradford.
(b) William H. Brooks.
(c) Willy Breaks.
(d) Bill Brooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke say unites the "American Negro"?

2. What is the essay "To a Dark Girl" about?

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

4. What does the boy buy Nicey at the end of "City Love"?

5. What does the "old crowd" recommend in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?

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