1. Provide and discuss two reasons why the Harmon Foundation was not completely successful in placing artworks of African-American artists of the Harlem Renaissance in major art galleries, museums, and before the public.
2. In his essay The New Negro, Alain Locke speaks of Garveyism as a "possibly transient, if spectacular, phenomenon"; explain what "Garveyism" is, and Locke's reasoning for such a description of that movement.
3. Discuss the correlative significance of the following artworks: William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1 ("Afro-American"); Henry Ossawa Tanner: "The Banjo Lesson"; Paul Laurence Dunbar: "We Wear the Mask".
4.the poem of Claude McKay, "If We Must Die" (that speaks of defiant challenge). Discuss the historical context in which the work was written. Discuss the poet's use of metaphor to describe the demanding sense of change embraced by the New Negro Movement in the years following World War I. Contrast McKay's poem with a closing excerpt of Countee Cullen's poem "Heritage".