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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 African American men gain the right to register and vote?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1867.

2. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?
(a) Tupelo.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Macon.
(d) Charleston.

3. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?
(a) Representational and violent.
(b) Medical and legal.
(c) Legal and representational.
(d) Logical and emotional.

4. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?
(a) Lynching.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Voting rights for African Americans.
(d) Miscegenation.

5. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many works of art were presented within the African-American exhibit at the World's Fair?

2. Gates urges the reader to think about the concept of the New Negro as a "metaphorical form of" (186) what?

3. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?

4. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

5. In what city did Victoria Earle Matthews open "a Home for Colored Working Girls" (214)?

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