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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 is the essay "Luani of the Jungles" about?

2. What seems to be the consensus of the essays in "New Negro Radicalism"?

3. What do the essays in the section "Afro-American Identity - Who Am I" have in common?

4. What age does Cullen specifically focus on in her writings?

5. Who says "white folks is white" in one of Cullen's poems?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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 James Weldon Johnson's work "Black Manhattan" and the importance of the August 1900 incident and what happened to make this event infamous. Detail the events that were a response to the incident that progressed Negroes to fight for their rights.

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