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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. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Fear.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Awe.

2. In what year was the National League of Colored Women founded?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1894.

3. Gates states that the true innovators within the Harlem Renaissance were what kind of artists?
(a) Poets.
(b) Dancers.
(c) Jazz musicians.
(d) Painters.

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

5. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?
(a) 5%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 10%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?

2. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

3. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

4. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?

5. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?

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