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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. 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?
(a) Respect.
(b) Politics.
(c) Skilled labor.
(d) Education.

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

3. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1866.

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

5. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1873.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

2. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?

3. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

4. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

5. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?

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