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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. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) Harvard.
(c) The University of Illinois.
(d) Yale.

2. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?
(a) Canada.
(b) France.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Greece.

3. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?
(a) 70%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 80%.

4. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?
(a) 10%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 20%.

5. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

2. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

3. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?

4. What was the top honor earned by the exhibition of African American imagery at the World's Fair?

5. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

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