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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 Locke say unites the "American Negro"?

2. What is suggested that the whites must do in "Race Pride"?

3. What follows the essay "A Long Way from Home"?

4. What specifically does Hughes describe in his impression of Harlem?

5. What does Garvey hope to achieve from his plan to build an empire in Africa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the mentality of the upper and middle class Negroes to those of the white race during the early 1900s in America. Consider Langston Hughes's essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".

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

Compare and contrast the common theme and idea of the authors in the first section, "New Negro Radicalism". What defines someone as an "old" or "new" Negro? Explain how these categories emphasize the common mentality of these authors?

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