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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. 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) Education.
(c) Skilled labor.
(d) Politics.

2. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) The United States.
(d) Denmark.

3. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?
(a) 21.
(b) 12.
(c) 45.
(d) 72.

4. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) Victor French.
(c) D.W. Griffith.
(d) Cecil B. DeMille.

5. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?
(a) The New Negro Manifesto.
(b) The New Negro Rebirth.
(c) The New Negro
(d) The New Negro Renaissance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?

3. What type of art was featured in the World's Fair exhibit depicting African Americans?

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

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

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