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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. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?
(a) 43.
(b) 11.
(c) 22.
(d) 3.

2. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?
(a) The effects of slavery.
(b) The effects of malnutrition.
(c) The constant stream of negative propaganda.
(d) The innate differences of black people.

3. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?
(a) Parody.
(b) Satire.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Cooperation.

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

5. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?
(a) Insubordination.
(b) Theft.
(c) Rape.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?

2. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

3. Who wrote the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" (195)?

4. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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