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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. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?
(a) 35.
(b) 5.
(c) 25.
(d) 15.

2. How many groups of people does Gates claim to have been "liberated by the creation of art" (228)?
(a) 0.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

3. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?
(a) Canada.
(b) Greece.
(c) Mexico.
(d) France.

4. In 1858, Frederick Douglass gave a speech asserting that he hated which group almost as much as he hated slaveholders?
(a) Southern law enforcement officers.
(b) Contented slaves.
(c) Apathetic Northerners.
(d) Ignorant Southerners.

5. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Cecil B. DeMille.
(b) Victor French.
(c) D.W. Griffith.
(d) Elia Kazan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The section of Part Four: The New Negro entitled "Reframing Race: Enter the New Negro" contains a sampling of what type of art?

2. Alain Locke asserted that art was in a completely different sphere of life than what other element?

3. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?

4. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

5. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

(see the answer key)

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