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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 was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

2. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Texas.

4. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 9,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 3,000.

5. Anna Julia Cooper was born into slavery in which state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?

3. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?

4. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?

5. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

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