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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 was selected president for the group that was formed in response to the police's refusals?

2. What does Locke say the Negro is willing to work for in "The New Negro"?

3. Which of the following does the author of "A New Crowd - A New Negro" NOT describe as a necessary characteristic of a new leader?

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

5. What does Locke question in "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss Wallace Thurman's "Infants of the Spring" and how its message contradicts with the desire for equality for Negroes. Compare and contrast how Dr. Parkes suggestion for the literary talents to "reach back to their African roots" digresses from seeing the Negro race as equal to whites.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the tolerance of racism in Negros and whites. How do they both demonstrate a tolerance to this accepted behavior?Do they begin to demonstrate a movement towards equality within the two races? If so, how?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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