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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. According to Gates, the two practices of sharecropping and convict leasing are both forms of what?
(a) Neo-slavery.
(b) Pseudo-slavery.
(c) Continued oppression.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

2. Of the original members of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, how many were former slaves?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

3. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1833.

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Alabama.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Folklore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the essay entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"?

2. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?

3. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

4. Booker T. Washington believed that what type of work was most suited to the majority of African Americans?

5. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

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