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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. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1877.

2. What is the surname of the poet responsible for writing the poem entitled "Heritage"?
(a) Brooks.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Cullen.
(d) Hurston.

3. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?
(a) Writer.
(b) Producer.
(c) Host.
(d) Guest speaker.

4. 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.

5. In what year was James Weldon Johnson appointed as the executive secretary of the NAACP?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the publication in which the essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" was published?

2. According to Gates, the two practices of sharecropping and convict leasing are both forms of what?

3. What sort of art did the artist James Weldon Johnson create?

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

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

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