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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. 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 moral imperative.
(c) The oppressive euphemism.
(d) The politics of oppression.

2. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They are female.
(b) They are African American.
(c) They are experts in visual rhetoric.
(d) They all lived in the 19th century.

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 North.
(b) The South.
(c) The East.
(d) The West.

4. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?
(a) 24.
(b) 36.
(c) 50.
(d) 12.

5. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) Harvard.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) The University of Illinois.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?

2. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?

3. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?

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

5. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?

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