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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the main character of "Sweat" do for a living?
(a) Cleans for "white folks".
(b) Keeps house.
(c) Laundry for "white folks".
(d) Cooks for "white folks".

3. What is the title of Marcus A. Garvey's essay that follows "Garveyism"?
(a) "Africa for the Africans".
(b) "The New Negro- What Is He".
(c) "The New Negro".
(d) If We Must Die".

4. What do the essays in the section "Afro-American Identity - Who Am I" have in common?
(a) Where negroes came from.
(b) Negroes ancestry.
(c) They connect Negroe relationships with their white counterparts.
(d) Negroes desire to learn.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the poem, "Poem", say the author has in common with the "little brown boy"?

3. What is Locke describing when he says "its a place inhabited and controlled by Negroes of many different walks of life"?

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

5. According to Locke, how do Negroes respond to their treatment by other races?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Discuss the struggle Paul deals with in "Cane" by Jean Toomer.

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

6. Describe the attitudes of the men's essays in the section New Negro Radicalism and the interpretation they leave for the reader.

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

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

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. Discuss how James Weldon Johnson describes Harlem in "Black Manhattan".

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