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

2. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1871.

3. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Gilded Age.
(b) The Technological Age.
(c) The Separation Age.
(d) The Iron Age.

4. 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)?
(a) The 1870s.
(b) The 1890s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1930s.

5. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?
(a) .5.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?

2. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?

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

4. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

5. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

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