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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 will the new leader not rest until he achieves in "A New Crowd - A New Negro"?

2. According to Locke, why have Negroes been treated a certain way?

3. What is the name of the girl who diffuses the altercation in the barber shop in "Blades of Steel"?

4. What is the conflict in "Sweat"?

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

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

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

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

7. Discuss what happens in Fisher's story "Blades of Steel".

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

9. Describe what W. E. B. DuBois's essay "Race Pride" addresses.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the common theme and idea of the authors in the first section, "New Negro Radicalism". What defines someone as an "old" or "new" Negro? Explain how these categories emphasize the common mentality of these authors?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the third section's author's "Afro-American Identity - Who Am I?" (in particular Hughes, Bennett, and Cullen) and how they address the relationship between Negroes and their white counterparts.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the pronunciation and adaptation of the Negroes and the English language. Consider Zora Neale Hurston's works as well as the poem by Cuney called "Conception".

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