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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. The epilogue of Stony the Road begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. What aspect of the African American male identity could not be contained, according to people opposing miscegenation?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Physical strength.
(d) A thirst for homicide.

3. In what year was the NAACP founded?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1932.

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

5. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1869.

Short Answer Questions

1. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?

2. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?

3. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?

4. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?

5. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?

(see the answer key)

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