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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 185-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?
(a) 90%.
(b) 70%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 60%.

2. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?
(a) Outdoors.
(b) In a classroom.
(c) Indoors.
(d) In a library.

3. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Slave or lecher.
(b) Rapist or dolt.
(c) Slave or savage.
(d) Poet or murderer.

4. In what decade was the image of the "New Negro" (127) put forth by African Americans in order to counteract the effects of "representational oppression" (127)?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1890s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1870s.

5. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?
(a) Point graphs.
(b) Pie charts.
(c) Line graphs.
(d) Bar graphs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?

2. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?

3. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?

4. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?

5. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?

(see the answer key)

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