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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 years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?
(a) 35.
(b) 5.
(c) 25.
(d) 15.

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

3. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) Victor French.
(c) Cecil B. DeMille.
(d) D.W. Griffith.

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

5. The section of Part Four: The New Negro entitled "Reframing Race: Enter the New Negro" contains a sampling of what type of art?
(a) Photography.
(b) Painting.
(c) Etching.
(d) Dance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?

3. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?

4. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?

5. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?

(see the answer key)

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