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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 do the police refuse in response to the murdered police officer in Johnson's essay?

2. Who says that those participating in the riots were acting out of self-defense?

3. Who advocates the construction of a "great nation in Africa" in "Africa for the Africans"?

4. What is the name of the police officer who is stabbed and killed in Johnson's essay?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Discuss what Wallace Thurman's editorial discusses about magazines aimed at Negroes.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the role of the African Nation in "Voices from the Renaissance". Considering "Garveyism" by Randolph and "Africa for Africans" by Garvey, discuss how the authors feel about the nation of Africa in relation to the Negroes in America. How do the authors present a positive or negative ideology for Africa's future?

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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