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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 did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1834,
(b) 1853,
(c) 1845.
(d) 1870.

2. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?
(a) Unfortunate.
(b) Famous.
(c) Infamous.
(d) Revolutionary.

3. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1874.

4. The Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?
(a) 200.
(b) 90.
(c) 40.
(d) 60.

5. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?
(a) Culturally sophisticated.
(b) Educated.
(c) Young.
(d) Married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?

2. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

3. In what year was the Separate Car Act passed by the Louisiana legislature?

4. Gates refers to the poem entitled "Heritage" as an example of what?

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

(see the answer key)

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