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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 is the title of Marcus A. Garvey's essay that follows "Garveyism"?

2. What sentiment is suggested about American Negroes in relation to Negroes in other parts of the world?

3. What does the "New Negro" believe in?

4. How many outcomes does Randolph attribute to Mr. Garvey's ideals in "Garveyism"?

5. In Johnson's essay, what is the name of the person who leaves his wife on a street corner, only to find her being harassed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Randolph's description of how the "new crowd" should behave in his essay "A New Crowd - A New Negro".

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

4. Discuss what occurred in response to the August 1900 incident.

5. Describe what Locke says about the "American Negro" in "The New Negro".

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

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

8. Discuss the prejudice shown in "Wedding Day" by Gwendolyn Bennett.

9. Discuss what Effie's role represents in Fisher's story "Blades of Steel".

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Wallace Thurman's "Infants of the Spring" and how its message contradicts with the desire for equality for Negroes. Compare and contrast how Dr. Parkes suggestion for the literary talents to "reach back to their African roots" digresses from seeing the Negro race as equal to whites.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the relationships of the couples in "Sweat" and "Long Black Song" by Hurston and Wright respectively. Discuss what these two stories suggest about Negro couples and the Negro man in general.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the beginning of the book's literature with the end of the book's literature. How do the theme, ideas, and challenges of the authors at the beginning like Domingo, McKay and Randolph differ from the authors at the end like DuBois and Hughes? How do these works progress like the mentality of the Negroes during that time?

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