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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. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?
(a) Texas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Alabama.

2. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) Alabama.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

3. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?
(a) 35.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

4. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?
(a) Harvard.
(b) William and Mary.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Yale.

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Folklore.
(d) Astrology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?

2. How many works of art were presented within the African-American exhibit at the World's Fair?

3. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?

4. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

5. 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)?

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