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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 unites the "American Negro"?
(a) A common heritage.
(b) A common race.
(c) A common experience.
(d) A common ideology.

2. What is being seen among the heritage of the minorities in "Race Pride"?
(a) A new pride.
(b) A new appreciation of their lives.
(c) A protection of their race.
(d) A new commitment to bettering their race.

3. What does Garvey hope to achieve from his plan to build an empire in Africa?
(a) A community.
(b) A new ideology.
(c) A reward to the most loyal to the Negro race.
(d) Fellowship among tribes.

4. Who supposedly bewitches the main character of "Luani of the Jungles"?
(a) A fortune teller.
(b) A Negro sailor.
(c) A gypsy.
(d) A young Negro woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What must the "New Negro" be willing to do in "A New Crowd - What Is He"?

3. What sentiment is suggested about American Negroes in relation to Negroes in other parts of the world?

4. What kind of changes does Locke see in the overall perception of Negroes?

5. What characteristic does the attitude of the "New Crowd" take?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss what Effie's role represents in Fisher's story "Blades of Steel".

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

5. Describe the attitudes of the men's essays in the section New Negro Radicalism and the interpretation they leave for the reader.

6. Discuss what Locke questions in "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts".

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

8. Describe the beginning and end of "From the Messenger - A Menace to Radicalism".

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

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

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