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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Booker T. Washington believed that what type of work was most suited to the majority of African Americans?
(a) Medical.
(b) Academic.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Industrial.

2. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?
(a) Awe.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Fear.

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

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

5. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?
(a) A manifesto.
(b) A poem.
(c) An illustration.
(d) A timeline.

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

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

8. The concept of the New Negro was used by a subgroup of African Americans between which two years?
(a) 1901 and 1910.
(b) 1894 and 1909.
(c) 1894 and 1925.
(d) 1872 and 1910.

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

10. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

11. The act of lynching was actually used to frighten African American men out of taking what action?
(a) Running for office.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Dating white women.
(d) Voting.

12. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?
(a) 50.
(b) 36.
(c) 24.
(d) 12.

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

14. How many medals, including bronze, silver, and gold, did the exhibition of African American images at the World's Fair win?
(a) 22.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 15.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?

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

3. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?

4. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?

5. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?

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