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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. Who is the author of "Blades of Steel"?
(a) Fisher.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Domingo.
(d) Randolph.
2. What sentiment is suggested about American Negroes in relation to Negroes in other parts of the world?
(a) They are better off in America.
(b) They are worse off in America.
(c) They desire to go to other parts of the world.
(d) They hate other parts of the world.
3. What age does Cullen specifically focus on in her writings?
(a) Adults.
(b) Children.
(c) Infants.
(d) Teenagers.
4. What essay concludes with the idea that labor organizations should "harness the discontent of Negroes" in order to obtain "working class emancipation"?
(a) "Garveyism".
(b) "Black Manhattan".
(c) "From the Messenger - A Menace to Radicalism".
(d) "If We Must Die".
5. Who cuts Cozzens with a razor from Pop Overton's shop in "Blades of Steel"?
(a) Eight-ball.
(b) Effie.
(c) Roger.
(d) Pop Overton.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Fisher note about the Cabaret dancers in his essay, "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"?
2. What does Locke analyze in relation to the conditions and movement of the "new Negro"?
3. In "Africa for the Africans", what does Domingo say about the enslavement of Negroes?
4. Which story calls for donations to a defense fund for those accused of participation in recent riots?
5. What fact does Locke cite at the end of "American Negro" in relation to outsider's perceptions?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does "Garveyism" by A. Phillip Randolph address?
2. Discuss the struggle Paul deals with in "Cane" by Jean Toomer.
3. Discuss what Locke questions in "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts".
4. Describe what Marcus A. Garvey's "Africa for Africans" reasons.
5. Discuss the significance in Paul's taking the time to correct the thoughts of the doorman at the hotel in Toomer's story "Cane".
6. Describe what Locke says about the "American Negro" in "The New Negro".
7. Describe the question Randolph poses in his essay "A New Crowd - A New Negro".
8. Discuss what Effie's role represents in Fisher's story "Blades of Steel".
9. Discuss what Wallace Thurman's editorial discusses about magazines aimed at Negroes.
10. Describe the August 1900 incident that occurs in "Black Manhattan".
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