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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Locke question in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?

3. Who is the essay "Luani of the Jungles" about?

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

5. Who gives a list of leaders who fall under the category of the "Old Crowd"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe how Domingo finds any person ever accused of being involved with race riots in his essay "Race Pride".

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the third section's author's "Afro-American Identity - Who Am I?" (in particular Hughes, Bennett, and Cullen) and how they address the relationship between Negroes and their white counterparts.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the element of rage in the sixth section's literature "Alien Gospel or Source of Inspiration?; Alienation, Anger, Rage". Compare and contrast the perception of what this emotional rage represents, the current state of the Negroes or a prompt to fight for their equality.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the perception and depiction of Harlem in "Voices from the Harlem Renaissance". Compare and contrast the different images we are given of this city in relationship to its inhabitants as well as cultural and artistic connections.

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