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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 did the Civil War begin in the United States?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1861.

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

3. What term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Slave.
(c) Abolitionist.
(d) Xenophobe.

4. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Folklore.
(c) Science.
(d) Religion.

5. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?
(a) Just and true.
(b) Power and grace.
(c) Best and brightest.
(d) Well and born.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?

2. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?

4. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?

5. What was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?

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