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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. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?
(a) Hodges.
(b) Williams.
(c) Miller.
(d) Post.

2. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Slave or savage.
(b) Slave or lecher.
(c) Poet or murderer.
(d) Rapist or dolt.

3. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?
(a) 35.
(b) 25.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

4. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?
(a) Culturally sophisticated.
(b) Married.
(c) Young.
(d) Educated.

5. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Abomination.
(b) Amalgamation.
(c) Intermingling.
(d) Reclamation.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?

2. Gates urges the reader to think about the concept of the New Negro as a "metaphorical form of" (186) what?

3. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?

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

5. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?

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