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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 the essay "Afro-American Fragment" address?

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

3. In what essay does the author state that "a Negro will turn on another Negro if ordered"?

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

5. What seems to be the consensus of the essays in "New Negro Radicalism"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe what Locke says about the "American Negro" in "The New Negro".

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

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

7. Discuss what Locke questions in "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts".

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Compare and contrast the progression and transition of "old" to "new" leaders by analyzing the beginning works with Georgia Douglas Johnson's poem "Old Black Men". Discuss how important this ideology is to the theme of "Voices from the Harlen Renaissance" as well as the state of society of the 1900s.

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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