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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Separate Car Act passed by the Louisiana legislature?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1880.

2. How many quotes are provided within the epigraph section for Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

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

5. W.E.B. Du Bois expressed in 1960 that he and his colleagues at Harvard in the 1920s had viewed themselves as "combatants" (199) in a war of what kind?
(a) Economy.
(b) Culture.
(c) Society.
(d) Race.

6. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?
(a) Greece.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Canada.
(d) France.

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

8. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?
(a) Infamous.
(b) Unfortunate.
(c) Famous.
(d) Revolutionary.

9. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

10. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?
(a) Crime.
(b) Immorality.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Laziness.

11. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?
(a) Dance.
(b) Theater.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sculpture.

12. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?
(a) A watermelon.
(b) A monkey.
(c) A shovel.
(d) A coffin.

13. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They all lived in the 19th century.
(b) They are African American.
(c) They are female.
(d) They are experts in visual rhetoric.

14. In what decade was the image of the "New Negro" (127) put forth by African Americans in order to counteract the effects of "representational oppression" (127)?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1870s.

15. Who wrote the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" (195)?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) James Baldwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?

2. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

3. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?

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

5. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?

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