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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. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1893.

2. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?
(a) Post.
(b) Hodges.
(c) Miller.
(d) Williams.

3. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1843.

4. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1840s.
(c) The 1910s.
(d) The 1930s.

5. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?
(a) 5%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 30%.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?

3. Gates urges the reader to think about the concept of the New Negro as a "metaphorical form of" (186) what?

4. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?

5. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?

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