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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. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) Jefferson Davis.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Edward A. Pollard.

2. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Technological Age.
(b) The Gilded Age.
(c) The Separation Age.
(d) The Iron Age.

3. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?
(a) Denmark Vesey.
(b) Joseph Cotten.
(c) Gabriel.
(d) Nat Turner.

4. According to Gates, the two practices of sharecropping and convict leasing are both forms of what?
(a) Jim Crow laws.
(b) Neo-slavery.
(c) Continued oppression.
(d) Pseudo-slavery.

5. Who fundamentally disagreed with Locke's notion of art being entirely separate from some other element of life?
(a) Washington.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Baldwin.
(d) Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?

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

3. In what decade did the Black Arts Movement take place in the United States?

4. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?

5. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?

(see the answer key)

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