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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Part One, Antislavery/Antislave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?
(a) Macon.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Tupelo.

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

3. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1833.

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

5. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1915.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?

2. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?

3. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

4. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

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

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