1. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?
(a) Ralph Ellison.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Baldwin.

2. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They are female.
(b) They are experts in visual rhetoric.
(c) They are African American.
(d) They all lived in the 19th century.

3. In what year was the anthology entitled The New Negro published?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1940.

4. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1870s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1920s.

5. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Langston Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Which artist is said to have developed cubism from studying African masks?

3. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

4. Gates uses what object within a metaphor demonstrating Alain Locke's view of literature within the fight for civil rights?

5. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?

(see the answer key)

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