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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 Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?
(a) 40.
(b) 200.
(c) 90.
(d) 60.

2. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?
(a) Race art.
(b) Signal and sign.
(c) Sambo art.
(d) The art of oppression.

3. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?
(a) Sexual desire.
(b) The pursuit of happiness.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Health.

4. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?
(a) France.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Greece.
(d) Canada.

5. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1930.

Short Answer Questions

1. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?

2. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?

3. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?

4. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?

5. What type of art was featured in the World's Fair exhibit depicting African Americans?

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