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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. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 35.
(d) 5.

2. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1873.

3. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1911.

4. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1888.

5. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?
(a) The notion that each race of people on earth should have its own leader.
(b) The notion that black people were a separate race from white people.
(c) The notion that there was an inherent hierarchy within each racial group.
(d) The notion that every race had had its own creator.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

2. In what year was the NAACP founded?

3. Movements such as the New Negro Movement and the concept of the Talented Tenth are today brought together under which moniker?

4. In what year did Victoria Earle Matthews present her essay entitled "The Value of Race Literature" (214)?

5. Who fundamentally disagreed with Locke's notion of art being entirely separate from some other element of life?

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