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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 is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They are female.
(b) They are African American.
(c) They all lived in the 19th century.
(d) They are experts in visual rhetoric.

2. 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) Sambo art.
(d) Signal and sign.

3. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1860.

4. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) .5.

5. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?
(a) The New Negro Manifesto.
(b) The New Negro Rebirth.
(c) The New Negro Renaissance.
(d) The New Negro

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

3. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

4. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

5. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

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