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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?
(a) The pursuit of happiness.
(b) Health.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Sexual desire.

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

3. What film does Gates name as containing parodies of African American stereotypes?
(a) Bamboozled.
(b) Pulp Fiction.
(c) Django Unchained.
(d) Do the Right Thing.

4. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?
(a) Chromolithography.
(b) Lomography.
(c) Cartography.
(d) Photography.

5. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?
(a) .5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

6. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Parody.
(d) Satire.

7. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?
(a) Married.
(b) Educated.
(c) Culturally sophisticated.
(d) Young.

8. According to Gates, the two practices of sharecropping and convict leasing are both forms of what?
(a) Continued oppression.
(b) Neo-slavery.
(c) Pseudo-slavery.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

9. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) North Carolina.

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

11. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?
(a) Joseph Cotten.
(b) Gabriel.
(c) Denmark Vesey.
(d) Nat Turner.

12. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?
(a) Williams.
(b) Post.
(c) Miller.
(d) Hodges.

13. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?
(a) 70%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 60%.

14. Movements such as the New Negro Movement and the concept of the Talented Tenth are today brought together under which moniker?
(a) The moral imperative.
(b) The oppressive euphemism.
(c) The politics of oppression.
(d) The politics of respectability.

15. How many works of art were presented within the African-American exhibit at the World's Fair?
(a) 88.
(b) 336.
(c) 134.
(d) 248.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?

2. What type of art was featured in the World's Fair exhibit depicting African Americans?

3. The concept of the New Negro was used by a subgroup of African Americans between which two years?

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

5. What was the top honor earned by the exhibition of African American imagery at the World's Fair?

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