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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. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?

2. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?

3. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?

4. What term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?

5. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Gates acknowledge the problematic nature of some aspects of the New Negro movement?

2. For what purpose does Gates present the experience of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie within Part Three: Framing Blackness?

3. For what reason does Gates refer to Homi K. Bhabha's discussion of stereotypes?

4. What does Gates mean when he discusses the way in which the collective image of the African American in 1890s popular culture functioned like a visual mantra?

5. What percentage of African Americans lived in the South by 1900?

6. Name at least five qualities of an ideal member of the New Negro movement, according to the perspective of its members?

7. What element caused the New Negro movement to emerge?

8. What was the difference between the circulation of images depicting black people before, versus after, the Civil War?

9. What was the intended goal of the group who launched the New Negro movement?

10. Discuss the significance of Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Gates, Jr.'s message regarding the difference between awareness and activism and how does Gates, Jr. get this message across to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Gates, Jr.’s use of characterization methods to portray real people. What effect do these characterization methods have on the work's inherent themes and messages?

Essay Topic 3

How does Gates, Jr. use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.

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