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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. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1873.

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

3. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?
(a) 24.
(b) 12.
(c) 36.
(d) 50.

4. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Alfalfa.
(b) Corn.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Cotton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?

2. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?

3. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?

4. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?

5. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?

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