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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. W.E.B. Du Bois expressed in 1960 that he and his colleagues at Harvard in the 1920s had viewed themselves as "combatants" (199) in a war of what kind?
(a) Economy.
(b) Culture.
(c) Race.
(d) Society.

2. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?
(a) Legal and representational.
(b) Logical and emotional.
(c) Medical and legal.
(d) Representational and violent.

3. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?
(a) 11.
(b) 41.
(c) 27.
(d) 18.

4. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1850.

5. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1869.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sambo art was presented as evidence that African Americans had no what?

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

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

4. The concept of the New Negro was used by a subgroup of African Americans between which two years?

5. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?

(see the answer key)

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