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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. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?
(a) 5%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 30%.

2. Booker T. Washington believed that what type of work was most suited to the majority of African Americans?
(a) Academic.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Medical.

3. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?
(a) Post.
(b) Miller.
(c) Williams.
(d) Hodges.

4. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

5. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?
(a) Crime.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Immorality.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

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

3. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?

4. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

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

(see the answer key)

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