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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Carter G. Woodson.
(d) Edward W. Clay.

2. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) Harvard.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Yale.

3. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?
(a) The notion that black people were a separate race from white people.
(b) The notion that each race of people on earth should have its own leader.
(c) The notion that every race had had its own creator.
(d) The notion that there was an inherent hierarchy within each racial group.

4. 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?
(a) 5%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 10%.

5. What film does Gates name as containing parodies of African American stereotypes?
(a) Bamboozled.
(b) Django Unchained.
(c) Do the Right Thing.
(d) Pulp Fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?

2. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

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

4. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

5. 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)?

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