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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. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?
(a) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(b) Chinua Achebe.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

2. The works of how many white writers were included within the anthology entitled The New Negro?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

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

4. What term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?
(a) Abolitionist.
(b) Xenophobe.
(c) Slave.
(d) Stereotype.

5. The concept of the New Negro was used by a subgroup of African Americans between which two years?
(a) 1901 and 1910.
(b) 1894 and 1909.
(c) 1894 and 1925.
(d) 1872 and 1910.

Short Answer Questions

1. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?

2. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?

3. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

4. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?

5. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

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