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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. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) Black military service in the Civil War.
(b) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(c) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.
(d) The Underground Railroad.

2. How many groups of people does Gates claim to have been "liberated by the creation of art" (228)?
(a) 0.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

3. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1925.

4. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1834.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1883.

5. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1843.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?

2. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?

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

4. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

5. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

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