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

2. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.
(b) Black military service in the Civil War.
(c) The Underground Railroad.
(d) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) Folklore.

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

5. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?
(a) Edward W. Clay.
(b) Carter G. Woodson.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

2. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?

3. How many medals, including bronze, silver, and gold, did the exhibition of African American images at the World's Fair win?

4. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

5. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?

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