View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Garvey hope to achieve from his plan to build an empire in Africa?

3. What must the "New Negro" be willing to do in "A New Crowd - What Is He"?

4. What specifically does Hughes describe in his impression of Harlem?

5. What happens to Sykes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the August 1900 incident that occurs in "Black Manhattan".

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

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

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

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

10. Discuss what Locke describes as " a new vision of opportunity" in "The New Negro".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the role of the African Nation in "Voices from the Renaissance". Considering "Garveyism" by Randolph and "Africa for Africans" by Garvey, discuss how the authors feel about the nation of Africa in relation to the Negroes in America. How do the authors present a positive or negative ideology for Africa's future?

Essay Topic 2

Explain what Locke means when he uses the term "American Negro". Also discuss how this term fits with his idea of Negroes behavior as a stereotype.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast how "The Negro Digs up His Past" by Arthur A. Schomburg and "George S. Schuyler's "Our Greatest Gift to America" discuss the idea that the greatest of the Negro race are dissociated with the race as a whole and what both find in the Negroes reaction to this idea.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 809 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample