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

2. In what year was the anthology entitled The New Negro published?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1910.

3. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Alabama.

4. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1933.

5. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?
(a) A fatwa.
(b) A fadir.
(c) A fakir.
(d) A nadir.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

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

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

4. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?

5. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?

(see the answer key)

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