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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. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Edward W. Clay.
(d) Carter G. Woodson.

2. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Positive.
(b) Race.
(c) Designed.
(d) Modern.

3. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?
(a) 36.
(b) 12.
(c) 50.
(d) 24.

4. How many members were part of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers upon the group's creation?
(a) 5.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

5. What is the name of the person identified as "the principal architect of the Harlem Renaissance" (220)?
(a) Alain Locke.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Winold Reiss.
(d) James Weldon Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?

2. What was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?

3. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?

4. Gates urges the reader to think about the concept of the New Negro as a "metaphorical form of" (186) what?

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

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