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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. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Edward W. Clay.
(c) Carter G. Woodson.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

2. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1910.

3. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?
(a) The South.
(b) The East.
(c) The North.
(d) The West.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

2. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?

3. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?

4. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

5. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?

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