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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. In what year was the Separate Car Act passed by the Louisiana legislature?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1890.

2. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?
(a) Voting rights for African Americans.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Miscegenation.
(d) Lynching.

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

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

5. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1851.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?

3. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?

4. What is the name of the person identified as "the principal architect of the Harlem Renaissance" (220)?

5. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

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