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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 214-245 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gates refers to the poem entitled "Heritage" as an example of what?
(a) Appropriation.
(b) Echoism.
(c) Primitivism.
(d) Euphemism.

2. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
(a) Frederick Hoffman.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

3. Which artist is said to have developed cubism from studying African masks?
(a) Dali.
(b) Manet.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Matisse.

4. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1860s.
(c) The 1880s.
(d) The 1850s.

5. Anna Julia Cooper was the fourth African American woman to accomplish what feat?
(a) To own a business.
(b) To vote.
(c) To become a doctor.
(d) To earn a PhD.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?

2. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?

3. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?

4. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?

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

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