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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 is suggested that the whites must do in "Race Pride"?
(a) Leave Asia and African countries or accept all men as equal.
(b) Leave Asian and African countries.
(c) Stand a fight the fight.
(d) Accept men as equal.

2. What follows the essay "A Long Way from Home"?
(a) 2 descriptive poems.
(b) A diary entry.
(c) A map.
(d) A catalogue of events.

3. Who sings "Shake that Thing" at local bars in the essay by Claude McKay?
(a) Banyo.
(b) Banjy.
(c) Benny.
(d) Banjo.

4. What is the conflict in "Sweat"?
(a) Deceit.
(b) Delia's husband is sleeping with another woman.
(c) Sykes's beatings.
(d) Love.

5. Which of the following does the author of "A New Crowd - A New Negro" NOT describe as a necessary characteristic of a new leader?
(a) Educated.
(b) Handsome.
(c) Radical.
(d) Young.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Domingo, what are the men of the "Old Crowd" filled with?

4. Who is the author of "Blades of Steel"?

5. What does Fisher note about the Cabaret dancers in his essay, "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. Discuss the struggle Paul deals with in "Cane" by Jean Toomer.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe what Locke says about the "American Negro" in "The New Negro".

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