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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 wrote the essay "Race Pride"?

2. What ethnicity is Paul in the essay "Cane"?

3. What does Fisher note about the Cabaret dancers in his essay, "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"?

4. What characteristic does the attitude of the "New Crowd" take?

5. Who cuts Cozzens with a razor from Pop Overton's shop in "Blades of Steel"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the struggle Paul deals with in "Cane" by Jean Toomer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Discuss what Effie's role represents in Fisher's story "Blades of Steel".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the perception and depiction of Harlem in "Voices from the Harlem Renaissance". Compare and contrast the different images we are given of this city in relationship to its inhabitants as well as cultural and artistic connections.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the reader's perception of the first section, "New Negro Radicalism" is unclear on how the ideas and prompts should be viewed. Explain how they present a positive front, negative front or both in their challenges to the Negro race.

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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