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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 notice about the bars and clubs in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?
(a) Whites are prohibited.
(b) Whites are just now being allowed to enter.
(c) Whites are serving Negroes.
(d) They are now attracting a white clientele.

2. What does Fisher note about the Cabaret dancers in his essay, "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"?
(a) Many are inexperienced.
(b) Many are white.
(c) Many are old.
(d) He hates them.

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

4. Who supposedly bewitches the main character of "Luani of the Jungles"?
(a) A fortune teller.
(b) A young Negro woman.
(c) A gypsy.
(d) A Negro sailor.

5. Who advocates the construction of a "great nation in Africa" in "Africa for the Africans"?
(a) Randolph.
(b) Marcus Garvey.
(c) Domingo.
(d) Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ethnicity is Paul in the essay "Cane"?

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

3. What is the essay "To a Dark Girl" about?

4. Who is the author of "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?

5. What does the "old crowd" recommend in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss what Locke questions in "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts".

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

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

5. Describe what Marcus A. Garvey's "Africa for Africans" reasons.

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

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

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

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

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

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