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

2. What is said that the "New Negro" will not allow from politicians in "The New Negro - What Is He"?
(a) To diminsih their goals.
(b) To make empty promises.
(c) To take their tax money.
(d) To campaign in their area.

3. What sentiment is suggested about American Negroes in relation to Negroes in other parts of the world?
(a) They are worse off in America.
(b) They are better off in America.
(c) They desire to go to other parts of the world.
(d) They hate other parts of the world.

4. In what essay does the author state that "a Negro will turn on another Negro if ordered"?
(a) "If We Must Die".
(b) "From the Messenger - A Menace to Radicalism".
(c) "Black Manhattan".
(d) "Garveyism".

5. Who is the essay "Sweat" about?
(a) Hot summers in Mississippi.
(b) Hurston's life.
(c) Delia.
(d) Dede.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the main character of "Sweat" do for a living?

2. Who supposedly bewitches the main character of "Luani of the Jungles"?

3. Which story calls for donations to a defense fund for those accused of participation in recent riots?

4. Who says "white folks is white" in one of Cullen's poems?

5. According to Locke, how do Negroes respond to their treatment by other races?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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