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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 historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1860.

2. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They all lived in the 19th century.
(b) They are African American.
(c) They are experts in visual rhetoric.
(d) They are female.

3. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1882.

4. What aspect of the African American male identity could not be contained, according to people opposing miscegenation?
(a) Physical strength.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) A thirst for homicide.
(d) Intelligence.

5. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?
(a) W.E.C. Wright.
(b) Alain Locke.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

2. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

3. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?

4. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

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

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