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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. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?
(a) As a professor of anthropology.
(b) As the dean of students.
(c) As a professor of biology.
(d) As a professor of natural history.

2. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?
(a) Fetal pigs.
(b) Frozen organs.
(c) Surgical instruments.
(d) Human skulls.

3. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?
(a) Race art.
(b) The art of oppression.
(c) Signal and sign.
(d) Sambo art.

4. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Designed.
(b) Race.
(c) Positive.
(d) Modern.

5. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?
(a) Indoors.
(b) In a classroom.
(c) In a library.
(d) Outdoors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?

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

3. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?

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

5. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?

(see the answer key)

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