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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. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1863.

3. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1877.

4. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?
(a) Cartography.
(b) Lomography.
(c) Chromolithography.
(d) Photography.

5. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?

3. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

4. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?

5. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

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