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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. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?
2. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?
3. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?
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)?
5. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the significance of Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech.
2. Explain the concept of the Talented Tenth advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois.
3. What element caused the New Negro movement to emerge?
4. In what way does Gates acknowledge the problematic nature of some aspects of the New Negro movement?
5. Which gains in the area of racial equality made during Reconstruction had been lost by the arrival of the twentieth century?
6. What did Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKenna write about African Americans in a majority opinion report in 1898?
7. For what reason does Gates refer to Homi K. Bhabha's discussion of stereotypes?
8. How many people are estimated to have been part of the Talented Tenth in 1920?
9. Name at least five qualities of an ideal member of the New Negro movement, according to the perspective of its members?
10. For what reasons does Gates consider a particular Mississippi Supreme Court Justice's words about African Americans in 1898 so significant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What ultimate message is Gates, Jr. sending about the nature and value of continually examining one’s own thought patterns and behaviors for signs of prejudice and awareness of privilege?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Gates, Jr.’s use of Aristotle's appeals within the text of Stony the Road. How does Gates, Jr. use each of the three appeals to persuade the reader of argumentative points central to the tenets of the work?
Essay Topic 3
How are the themes of truth and deception depicted within Gates, Jr.’s book Stony the Road?
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