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

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

3. 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.

4. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1854.

5. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Alfalfa.
(c) Corn.
(d) Cotton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?

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

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

4. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?

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

(see the answer key)

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