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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. Who is the essay "Sweat" about?

2. Which essay addresses the August 1900 incident?

3. What does the essay "Afro-American Fragment" address?

4. How many outcomes does Randolph attribute to Mr. Garvey's ideals in "Garveyism"?

5. What does Alain Locke suggest in "The New Negro" about the "old Negro"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does "Garveyism" by A. Phillip Randolph address?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss James Weldon Johnson's work "Black Manhattan" and the importance of the August 1900 incident and what happened to make this event infamous. Detail the events that were a response to the incident that progressed Negroes to fight for their rights.

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 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.

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