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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. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?
(a) A short story.
(b) A song.
(c) A novel.
(d) A poem.

2. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Edward A. Pollard.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

3. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?
(a) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.
(b) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
(c) The Harlem Renaissance.
(d) The formation of the NAACP.

4. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1834,
(c) 1845.
(d) 1853,

5. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Modern.
(b) Designed.
(c) Race.
(d) Positive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?

2. What is the name of the person identified as "the principal architect of the Harlem Renaissance" (220)?

3. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

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

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

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