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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 was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?
(a) Materialism.
(b) Crime.
(c) Immorality.
(d) Laziness.

2. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?
(a) Archtype.
(b) Superhero.
(c) Trope.
(d) Victory.

3. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Denmark Vesey.
(c) Nat Turner.
(d) Joseph Cotten.

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Alabama.
(d) West Virginia.

5. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?
(a) Various physical traits.
(b) Regularity.
(c) Height.
(d) Genealogy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?

2. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?

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

4. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

5. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?

(see the answer key)

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