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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 aspect of the Negro culture does Locke discuss?

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

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

4. What happens to Sykes?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Discuss the significance in Paul's taking the time to correct the thoughts of the doorman at the hotel in Toomer's story "Cane".

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the relationships of the couples in "Sweat" and "Long Black Song" by Hurston and Wright respectively. Discuss what these two stories suggest about Negro couples and the Negro man in general.

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

Compare and contrast the tolerance of racism in Negros and whites. How do they both demonstrate a tolerance to this accepted behavior?Do they begin to demonstrate a movement towards equality within the two races? If so, how?

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