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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 214-245 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?
(a) Cornell.
(b) William and Mary.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

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

3. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?
(a) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.
(b) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
(c) The formation of the NAACP.
(d) The Harlem Renaissance.

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

5. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?
(a) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(b) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Chinua Achebe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?

3. In what decade did the Black Arts Movement take place in the United States?

4. Sambo art was presented as evidence that African Americans had no what?

5. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?

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