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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 essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1874.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Chinua Achebe.
(c) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(d) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

14. 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) Sambo art.
(b) The art of oppression.
(c) Signal and sign.
(d) Race art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?

2. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?

3. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?

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

5. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?

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