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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 asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?
(a) Respect.
(b) Politics.
(c) Education.
(d) Skilled labor.

2. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1843.

3. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1860.

4. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) The University of Pennsylvania.

5. What was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?
(a) 50,000,000.
(b) 10,000,000.
(c) 30,000,000.
(d) 80,000,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?

2. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

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

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

5. How many medals, including bronze, silver, and gold, did the exhibition of African American images at the World's Fair win?

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