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

2. What does McKay describe in "A Long Way from Home"?
(a) The arrival at Ellis Island.
(b) His journey home.
(c) His journey away from home.
(d) Mileage.

3. What is being seen among the heritage of the minorities in "Race Pride"?
(a) A protection of their race.
(b) A new appreciation of their lives.
(c) A new pride.
(d) A new commitment to bettering their race.

4. What are the names of McKay's two poems?
(a) "America" and "Africa".
(b) "Africa" and "Mulatto".
(c) "Asia" and "Africa".
(d) "Mulatto" and "America".

5. What is the main character of "Sweat" afraid of?
(a) Heights.
(b) Love.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Snakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of the Negro culture does Locke discuss?

2. What fact does Locke cite at the end of "American Negro" in relation to outsider's perceptions?

3. In what essay does the author state that "a Negro will turn on another Negro if ordered"?

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

5. What will the new leader not rest until he achieves in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the prejudice shown in "Wedding Day" by Gwendolyn Bennett.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Discuss what Effie's role represents in Fisher's story "Blades of Steel".

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

10. Discuss what happens in Fisher's story "Blades of Steel".

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