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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 anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1880s.
(c) The 1860s.
(d) The 1920s.

2. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?
(a) Superhero.
(b) Archtype.
(c) Trope.
(d) Victory.

3. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?
(a) A fakir.
(b) A fadir.
(c) A nadir.
(d) A fatwa.

4. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?
(a) The 1840s.
(b) The 1890s.
(c) The 1910s.
(d) The 1930s.

5. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?
(a) Respect.
(b) Skilled labor.
(c) Politics.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" (195)?

2. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

3. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?

4. How many quotes are provided within the epigraph section for Part Three: Framing Blackness?

5. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

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