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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. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?
(a) The 1910s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1840s.

2. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

3. The epilogue of Stony the Road begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Booker T. Washington believed that what type of work was most suited to the majority of African Americans?

2. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?

3. The act of lynching was actually used to frighten African American men out of taking what action?

4. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?

5. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?

(see the answer key)

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