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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 NAACP founded?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1932.

2. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1866.

3. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Satire.
(d) Parody.

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) Alabama.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

5. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Respect.
(c) Skilled labor.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?

2. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?

3. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?

4. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

5. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?

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