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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. Gates uses what object within a metaphor demonstrating Alain Locke's view of literature within the fight for civil rights?
(a) A lightning rod.
(b) A wooden fence.
(c) A butter churn.
(d) A clothes iron.

2. Victoria Earle Matthews's essay "The Value of Race Literature" (214) begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Countee Cullen.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Henry David Thoreau.

3. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1880.

4. W.E.B. Du Bois expressed in 1960 that he and his colleagues at Harvard in the 1920s had viewed themselves as "combatants" (199) in a war of what kind?
(a) Society.
(b) Economy.
(c) Race.
(d) Culture.

5. Gates refers to the poem entitled "Heritage" as an example of what?
(a) Primitivism.
(b) Echoism.
(c) Appropriation.
(d) Euphemism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

3. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?

4. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

5. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?

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