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

2. What does Locke say unites the "American Negro"?
(a) A common ideology.
(b) A common race.
(c) A common heritage.
(d) A common experience.

3. Who gives a list of leaders who fall under the category of the "Old Crowd"?
(a) Domingo.
(b) Garvey.
(c) Randolph.
(d) Du Bois.

4. What do the police refuse in response to the murdered police officer in Johnson's essay?
(a) Peace among the Negroes.
(b) Protective custody for Negroes seeking help.
(c) Any calls regarding the murder.
(d) A trial for the officer's murderer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Domingo, what are the men of the "New Crowd" filled with?

3. What specifically does Hughes describe in his impression of Harlem?

4. How many outcomes does Randolph attribute to Mr. Garvey's ideals in "Garveyism"?

5. What ethnicity is Paul in the essay "Cane"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Discuss the "voodoo" in "Luani of the Jungles" by Langston Hughes.

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

7. Describe the question Randolph poses in his essay "A New Crowd - A New Negro".

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

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

10. Discuss what happens in Fisher's story "Blades of Steel".

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