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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 experience.
(b) A common heritage.
(c) A common ideology.
(d) A common race.

2. Who cuts Cozzens with a razor from Pop Overton's shop in "Blades of Steel"?
(a) Roger.
(b) Eight-ball.
(c) Effie.
(d) Pop Overton.

3. Which of the following is NOT a poem included by Hughes in the section "Afro American Identity - Who am I"?
(a) "Cross".
(b) "I Too Sing America".
(c) "Crossing Jordan".
(d) "Negro".

4. Who says that those participating in the riots were acting out of self-defense?
(a) Du Bois.
(b) Garvey.
(c) Randolph.
(d) Domingo.

5. What does Alain Locke suggest in "The New Negro" about the "old Negro"?
(a) The "old Negro" is nothing more than a myth or ideal.
(b) The "old Negro"has completely died out.
(c) The "old Negro" desires what the "new Negro" wants.
(d) The "old Negro" is very much active.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the police officer who is stabbed and killed in Johnson's essay?

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

3. Who wrote the essay "Race Pride"?

4. What does Domingo hint to about the government's current state of being?

5. What seems to be the consensus of the essays in "New Negro Radicalism"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe what theme the first essays in the section "New Negro Radicalism" have in common.

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss what occurred in response to the August 1900 incident.

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

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