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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. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Michael Donkor.
(b) Valeria Luiselli.
(c) Charles R. Johnson.
(d) Jesmyn Ward.

2. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?
(a) Apprenticeship.
(b) Serfdom.
(c) Indentured servitude.
(d) Sharecropping.

3. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?
(a) Victory.
(b) Superhero.
(c) Archtype.
(d) Trope.

4. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?
(a) Chris Rock.
(b) Steve Harvey.
(c) Kevin Hart.
(d) Eddie Murphy.

5. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?
(a) A fadir.
(b) A fatwa.
(c) A nadir.
(d) A fakir.

Short Answer Questions

1. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

2. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

3. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

4. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?

5. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

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