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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. Which story calls for donations to a defense fund for those accused of participation in recent riots?
(a) "Garveyism".
(b) "The New Negro".
(c) "If We Must Die".
(d) "Defense of the Negro Rioters".

2. What will the new leader not rest until he achieves in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?
(a) Until women are seen as equal.
(b) Until he receives national recognition.
(c) Until the new negro has an equal footing.
(d) Until the old crowd dies.

3. Who is the author of "Harlem Reviewed"?
(a) Nikki Court.
(b) Nancy Cunard.
(c) Nicole Cunny.
(d) Nicholas Cunard.

4. What specifically does Hughes describe in his impression of Harlem?
(a) Music.
(b) Underground trains.
(c) Graffiti.
(d) Negroes cuisine.

5. What is Locke describing when he says "its a place inhabited and controlled by Negroes of many different walks of life"?
(a) Africa.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Capetown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the police refuse in response to the murdered police officer in Johnson's essay?

2. Who is the essay "Luani of the Jungles" about?

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

4. What is being seen among the heritage of the minorities in "Race Pride"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Helene Johnson's poem "Poem" describe?

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

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