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

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

3. What does Domingo hint to about the government's current state of being?
(a) They have deviated from their constitution's laws.
(b) The situation's intolerancy and that free press and assembly are not possible.
(c) They are out of control.
(d) No one cares about the African American race.

4. Who is the author of "Blades of Steel"?
(a) Hughes.
(b) Fisher.
(c) Domingo.
(d) Randolph.

5. 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) Arther Mayer.
(b) Arthur Harris.
(c) Andy Haney.
(d) Art Harlem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fisher miss when he is away at medical school in "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"?

2. What does Garvey hope to achieve from his plan to build an empire in Africa?

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

4. In which essay does Garvey outline the specifics of his plan to establish an empire in Africa?

5. What does the "New Negro" believe in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the prejudice shown in "Wedding Day" by Gwendolyn Bennett.

3. Discuss the significance in Paul's taking the time to correct the thoughts of the doorman at the hotel in Toomer's story "Cane".

4. Discuss the struggle Paul deals with in "Cane" by Jean Toomer.

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

6. Discuss what happens in Zora Neale Hurston's story "Sweat".

7. What does "Garveyism" by A. Phillip Randolph address?

8. Describe what W. E. B. DuBois's essay "Race Pride" addresses.

9. Describe the August 1900 incident that occurs in "Black Manhattan".

10. Describe Randolph's description of how the "new crowd" should behave in his essay "A New Crowd - A New Negro".

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