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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 McKay describe in "A Long Way from Home"?

2. What was formed as a response to the police's refusals in Johnson's essay?

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

4. Which essay addresses the August 1900 incident?

5. Which story calls for donations to a defense fund for those accused of participation in recent riots?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss what Nancy Cunard says in "Harlem Reviewed" about Harlem's physical attributes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the common theme and idea of the authors in the first section, "New Negro Radicalism". What defines someone as an "old" or "new" Negro? Explain how these categories emphasize the common mentality of these authors?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the reader's perception of the first section, "New Negro Radicalism" is unclear on how the ideas and prompts should be viewed. Explain how they present a positive front, negative front or both in their challenges to the Negro race.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the beginning of the book's literature with the end of the book's literature. How do the theme, ideas, and challenges of the authors at the beginning like Domingo, McKay and Randolph differ from the authors at the end like DuBois and Hughes? How do these works progress like the mentality of the Negroes during that time?

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