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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?
(a) In a classroom.
(b) Outdoors.
(c) In a library.
(d) Indoors.

2. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

4. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1903.

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

6. In what discipline did the first African American man to earn a PhD earn his degree?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Theology.
(d) Anthropology.

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

8. 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 1870s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1930s.

9. 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)?
(a) Race art.
(b) The art of oppression.
(c) Sambo art.
(d) Signal and sign.

10. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1911.

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

12. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?
(a) Trains.
(b) Automobiles.
(c) Buses.
(d) Trolleys.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the Separate Car Act passed by the Louisiana legislature?

3. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?

4. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?

5. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?

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