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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. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?
(a) Revolutionary.
(b) Unfortunate.
(c) Famous.
(d) Infamous.

2. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Langston Hughes.

3. What was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?
(a) 10,000,000.
(b) 80,000,000.
(c) 30,000,000.
(d) 50,000,000.

4. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?
(a) Vermont.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Virginia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?

2. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?

3. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?

4. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

5. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?

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