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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 is Locke describing when he says "its a place inhabited and controlled by Negroes of many different walks of life"?

3. What does the poem, "Poem", say the author has in common with the "little brown boy"?

4. What is the name of the girl who diffuses the altercation in the barber shop in "Blades of Steel"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Discuss what happens in Zora Neale Hurston's story "Sweat".

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

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

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

Compare and contrast how "The Negro Digs up His Past" by Arthur A. Schomburg and "George S. Schuyler's "Our Greatest Gift to America" discuss the idea that the greatest of the Negro race are dissociated with the race as a whole and what both find in the Negroes reaction to this idea.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the mentality of the upper and middle class Negroes to those of the white race during the early 1900s in America. Consider Langston Hughes's essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".

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