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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 Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1853,
(d) 1834,

2. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1870.

3. 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 Harlem Renaissance.
(c) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.
(d) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.

4. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1900.

5. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1877.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Gates, the two practices of sharecropping and convict leasing are both forms of what?

3. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?

4. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

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

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