1. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?
(a) The New Negro Rebirth.
(b) The New Negro Renaissance.
(c) The New Negro
(d) The New Negro Manifesto.

2. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1868.

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

4. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They are experts in visual rhetoric.
(b) They all lived in the 19th century.
(c) They are African American.
(d) They are female.

5. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?
(a) Sambo art.
(b) The art of oppression.
(c) Signal and sign.
(d) Race art.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade was the image of the "New Negro" (127) put forth by African Americans in order to counteract the effects of "representational oppression" (127)?

2. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?

3. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?

4. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?

5. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?

(see the answer key)

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