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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 names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Brown.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

2. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Curie.
(c) Mendel.
(d) Maslow.

3. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?
(a) Indoors.
(b) In a classroom.
(c) In a library.
(d) Outdoors.

4. Booker T. Washington believed that what type of work was most suited to the majority of African Americans?
(a) Industrial.
(b) Academic.
(c) Medical.
(d) Artistic.

5. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1870.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?

2. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?

3. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

4. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

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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