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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. How many works of art were presented within the African-American exhibit at the World's Fair?
(a) 248.
(b) 134.
(c) 88.
(d) 336.

2. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Slave or lecher.
(b) Rapist or dolt.
(c) Poet or murderer.
(d) Slave or savage.

3. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Maslow.
(b) Mendel.
(c) Curie.
(d) Darwin.

4. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?
(a) Painting.
(b) Theater.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Dance.

5. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Lynching.
(c) Miscegenation.
(d) Voting rights for African Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?

2. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?

3. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?

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

5. In 1858, Frederick Douglass gave a speech asserting that he hated which group almost as much as he hated slaveholders?

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