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

2. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

3. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1899.

4. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Brown.
(d) Yale.

5. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1813.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?

3. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?

4. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

5. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?

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