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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 states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?
(a) The formation of the NAACP.
(b) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
(c) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.
(d) The Harlem Renaissance.

2. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1901.

3. How many works of art were presented within the African-American exhibit at the World's Fair?
(a) 88.
(b) 248.
(c) 336.
(d) 134.

4. According to Gates, the two practices of sharecropping and convict leasing are both forms of what?
(a) Neo-slavery.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Continued oppression.
(d) Pseudo-slavery.

5. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?
(a) Frozen organs.
(b) Fetal pigs.
(c) Human skulls.
(d) Surgical instruments.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?

2. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

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

4. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?

5. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?

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