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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. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1880s.
(c) The 1860s.
(d) The 1850s.

2. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1859.

3. W.E.B. Du Bois expressed in 1960 that he and his colleagues at Harvard in the 1920s had viewed themselves as "combatants" (199) in a war of what kind?
(a) Race.
(b) Culture.
(c) Society.
(d) Economy.

4. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?
(a) Folklore.
(b) Religion.
(c) Science.
(d) Mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?

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

4. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

5. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?

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