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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. How many groups of people does Gates claim to have been "liberated by the creation of art" (228)?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

2. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Alain Locke.
(d) W.E.C. Wright.

3. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Abomination.
(b) Reclamation.
(c) Intermingling.
(d) Amalgamation.

4. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1925.

5. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A coffin.
(c) A watermelon.
(d) A monkey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?

3. The anthology entitled The New Negro was dedicated to whom?

4. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?

5. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

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