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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke say the Negro is willing to work for in "The New Negro"?
(a) More food.
(b) Better conditions.
(c) Better lifestyle.
(d) More space to live.

2. What is the name of the police officer who is stabbed and killed in Johnson's essay?
(a) Robert Thatcher.
(b) Rob Thorne.
(c) Robert Thorpe.
(d) Bobby Therron.

3. Who sings "Shake that Thing" at local bars in the essay by Claude McKay?
(a) Benny.
(b) Banjo.
(c) Banyo.
(d) Banjy.

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

5. What does the "old crowd" recommend in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?
(a) Conservative changes.
(b) Conservative measures.
(c) Radical changes.
(d) Radical measures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke question in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?

2. Who gives a list of leaders who fall under the category of the "Old Crowd"?

3. In "Africa for the Africans", what does Domingo say about the enslavement of Negroes?

4. What fact does Locke cite at the end of "American Negro" in relation to outsider's perceptions?

5. According to Garvey, what does he feel is the opposite result of the construction of a great African nation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Domingo finds any person ever accused of being involved with race riots in his essay "Race Pride".

2. Discuss what occurred in response to the August 1900 incident.

3. Describe what W. A. Domingo writes the "New Negro" must be able to do in "If We Must Die".

4. Discuss how James Weldon Johnson describes Harlem in "Black Manhattan".

5. Describe how Alain Locke's "The New Negro" defines the "new negro" as.

6. Discuss what Wallace Thurman's editorial discusses about magazines aimed at Negroes.

7. Discuss what Nancy Cunard says in "Harlem Reviewed" about Harlem's physical attributes.

8. Discuss what Locke describes as " a new vision of opportunity" in "The New Negro".

9. Describe what Marcus A. Garvey's "Africa for Africans" reasons.

10. Describe what happens in Jean Toomer's story "Cane".

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