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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 "New Negro" believe in?

2. Who hates the main character of "Sweat"?

3. What sentiment is suggested about American Negroes in relation to Negroes in other parts of the world?

4. What is said that the "New Negro" will not allow from politicians in "The New Negro - What Is He"?

5. What will the new leader not rest until he achieves in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe how Alain Locke's "The New Negro" defines the "new negro" as.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss the role of Negro magazines and newspapers during the early 1900s, specifically "The Messenger" and "Fire". What was the purpose of the contents of the works and how does this provide a deeper insight for the reader to better understand the issues of the time?

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