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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. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) The United States.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Germany.

2. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Langston Hughes.

3. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?
(a) Miller.
(b) Williams.
(c) Post.
(d) Hodges.

4. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1866.

5. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1911.

Short Answer Questions

1. The works of how many white writers were included within the anthology entitled The New Negro?

2. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?

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

4. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

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

(see the answer key)

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