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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 fact does Locke cite at the end of "American Negro" in relation to outsider's perceptions?

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

3. What is the main character of "Sweat" afraid of?

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

5. What does the essay "Afro-American Fragment" address?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 term renaissance applies to the literature of "Voices from the Harlem Renaissance" and how America had its own literary renaissance in the early 1900s.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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