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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the conflict in "Sweat"?
(a) Delia's husband is sleeping with another woman.
(b) Deceit.
(c) Sykes's beatings.
(d) Love.

2. Who cuts Cozzens with a razor from Pop Overton's shop in "Blades of Steel"?
(a) Pop Overton.
(b) Eight-ball.
(c) Roger.
(d) Effie.

3. What are the names of McKay's two poems?
(a) "Africa" and "Mulatto".
(b) "Mulatto" and "America".
(c) "America" and "Africa".
(d) "Asia" and "Africa".

4. What question is posed in regards to leadership roles of "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?
(a) Who will become the president.
(b) Who will take over leadership roles when the old crowd no longer exists.
(c) Who will end the old crowd.
(d) Who will fight for their new ideaology.

5. Who hates the main character of "Sweat"?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her mom.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her husband.

6. What does the poem immediately following "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts" by Countee Cullen address?
(a) Her thoughts on Harlem.
(b) How to become a successful Negroe.
(c) The history of her artwork.
(d) Her thoughts on Africa.

7. What fact does Locke cite at the end of "American Negro" in relation to outsider's perceptions?
(a) They do not understand the Negro race.
(b) They see only what they want to see.
(c) They are slowly seeing humans in the Negro race.
(d) They are being studied and not debated about.

8. Who is the author of "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?
(a) Domingo.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Randolph.
(d) Garvey.

9. Who wrote "If We Must Die"?
(a) Garvey.
(b) Domingo.
(c) James Weldon Johnson.
(d) Randolph.

10. Who is the essay "Sweat" about?
(a) Dede.
(b) Hot summers in Mississippi.
(c) Hurston's life.
(d) Delia.

11. What follows the essay "A Long Way from Home"?
(a) 2 descriptive poems.
(b) A catalogue of events.
(c) A map.
(d) A diary entry.

12. According to Locke, how do Negroes respond to their treatment by other races?
(a) They allow themselves to be ridiculed.
(b) They back down.
(c) They use it as an excuse to behave the way they do.
(d) They fight back.

13. What specifically does Hughes describe in his impression of Harlem?
(a) Music.
(b) Graffiti.
(c) Negroes cuisine.
(d) Underground trains.

14. Who says "white folks is white" in one of Cullen's poems?
(a) Uncle Jim.
(b) Uncle Jem.
(c) Aunt Em.
(d) Aunt Jem.

15. What essay concludes with the idea that labor organizations should "harness the discontent of Negroes" in order to obtain "working class emancipation"?
(a) "Black Manhattan".
(b) "From the Messenger - A Menace to Radicalism".
(c) "Garveyism".
(d) "If We Must Die".

Short Answer Questions

1. Who advocates the construction of a "great nation in Africa" in "Africa for the Africans"?

2. In which essay does Garvey outline the specifics of his plan to establish an empire in Africa?

3. What does the boy buy Nicey at the end of "City Love"?

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

5. Where does the boxer from the essay "Wedding Day" leave America to go to?

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