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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 NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?
(a) Crime.
(b) Materialism.
(c) Immorality.
(d) Laziness.
2. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1882.
3. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Virginia.
(d) North Carolina.
4. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) The two men were brothers-in-law.
(b) The two men were cousins.
(c) The two men were half-brothers.
(d) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.
5. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Michael Donkor.
(b) Valeria Luiselli.
(c) Charles R. Johnson.
(d) Jesmyn Ward.
Short Answer Questions
1. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
2. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?
3. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?
4. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
5. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
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