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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 185-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A monkey.
(c) A watermelon.
(d) A coffin.

2. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?
(a) Lomography.
(b) Chromolithography.
(c) Cartography.
(d) Photography.

3. The concept of the New Negro was used by a subgroup of African Americans between which two years?
(a) 1894 and 1909.
(b) 1872 and 1910.
(c) 1901 and 1910.
(d) 1894 and 1925.

4. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?
(a) The effects of malnutrition.
(b) The innate differences of black people.
(c) The effects of slavery.
(d) The constant stream of negative propaganda.

5. What aspect of the African American male identity could not be contained, according to people opposing miscegenation?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Physical strength.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) A thirst for homicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

2. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?

3. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?

4. What was the surname of the first African American to ever earn a PhD?

5. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?

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