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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 the poem, "Poem", say the author has in common with the "little brown boy"?
(a) She too feels repressed.
(b) She is also a jig.
(c) She is also happy.
(d) She is also brown.

2. What is "City Love" about?
(a) Life in the city.
(b) A boy and a girl trying to find a hotel room.
(c) A couple falling in love.
(d) A person falling in love with the city.

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

4. What does Garvey hope to achieve from his plan to build an empire in Africa?
(a) A community.
(b) A reward to the most loyal to the Negro race.
(c) A new ideology.
(d) Fellowship among tribes.

5. What does Fisher miss when he is away at medical school in "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"?
(a) His friends.
(b) His mom.
(c) The city.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which essay addresses the August 1900 incident?

2. Where does the boxer from the essay "Wedding Day" leave America to go to?

3. What does the poem immediately following "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts" by Countee Cullen address?

4. What do the essays in the section "Afro-American Identity - Who Am I" have in common?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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