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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 emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Awe.

2. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 4,000.

3. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Charles W. Chesnutt.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

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

5. The act of lynching was actually used to frighten African American men out of taking what action?
(a) Running for office.
(b) Voting.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Dating white women.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?

2. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?

3. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?

4. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

5. In what decade was the image of the "New Negro" (127) put forth by African Americans in order to counteract the effects of "representational oppression" (127)?

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