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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 Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?
(a) 40.
(b) 60.
(c) 200.
(d) 90.

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

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

4. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1854.

5. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) Germany.
(b) The United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?

2. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?

3. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?

4. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?

5. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?

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