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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 did the police officer of Johnson's essay think the wife was doing on the street corner?
(a) About to jay walk.
(b) Waiting for someone.
(c) Acting drunk.
(d) Soliciting.

2. Where does the boxer from the essay "Wedding Day" leave America to go to?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) Austria.
(d) France.

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

4. What does Domingo hint to about the government's current state of being?
(a) The situation's intolerancy and that free press and assembly are not possible.
(b) They are out of control.
(c) No one cares about the African American race.
(d) They have deviated from their constitution's laws.

5. What does Locke question in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?
(a) What makes something art.
(b) The ancestry of art.
(c) How Negro art forms were formed.
(d) The popularity of Negro arts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main character of "Sweat" afraid of?

2. What happens to Sykes?

3. Who was selected president for the group that was formed in response to the police's refusals?

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

5. According to Domingo, what are the men of the "New Crowd" filled with?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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