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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?
(a) 80%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 70%.

2. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1866.

3. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?
(a) Automobiles.
(b) Trains.
(c) Trolleys.
(d) Buses.

4. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1954.

5. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Fear.
(d) Awe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?

2. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

3. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?

4. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?

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

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