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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of art was featured in the World's Fair exhibit depicting African Americans?
(a) Photography.
(b) Painting.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Etching.

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

4. 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.

5. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 10,000.

6. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?
(a) W.E.C. Wright.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Alain Locke.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

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

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

9. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1900.

10. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1850s.
(d) The 1870s.

11. What term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?
(a) Abolitionist.
(b) Slave.
(c) Xenophobe.
(d) Stereotype.

12. What was the top honor earned by the exhibition of African American imagery at the World's Fair?
(a) The Blue Ribbon.
(b) The Grand Prix.
(c) The Grand Teton.
(d) The Piece de Resistance.

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

14. 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) Pie charts.
(b) Line graphs.
(c) Point graphs.
(d) Bar graphs.

15. What was the surname of the first African American to ever earn a PhD?
(a) Macon.
(b) Washington.
(c) Gabbard.
(d) Bowen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of the African American male identity could not be contained, according to people opposing miscegenation?

2. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?

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

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

5. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?

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