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

2. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A watermelon.
(c) A coffin.
(d) A monkey.

3. How many medals, including bronze, silver, and gold, did the exhibition of African American images at the World's Fair win?
(a) 9.
(b) 15.
(c) 22.
(d) 5.

4. Movements such as the New Negro Movement and the concept of the Talented Tenth are today brought together under which moniker?
(a) The politics of respectability.
(b) The oppressive euphemism.
(c) The moral imperative.
(d) The politics of oppression.

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)?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1870s.
(d) The 1890s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

2. In what year was the NAACP founded?

3. What film does Gates name as containing parodies of African American stereotypes?

4. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?

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

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