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

2. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Michael Donkor.
(b) Valeria Luiselli.
(c) Jesmyn Ward.
(d) Charles R. Johnson.

3. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1900.

4. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?
(a) Bar graphs.
(b) Point graphs.
(c) Line graphs.
(d) Pie charts.

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?
(a) Folklore.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Science.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

2. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

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

4. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner was a veteran of which war?

5. What was the name of the publication in which the essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" was published?

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