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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1831.

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

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

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

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

6. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

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

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

9. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Satire.
(d) Parody.

10. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?
(a) Carter G. Woodson.
(b) Edward W. Clay.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

11. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1900.

12. 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) Laziness.
(b) Materialism.
(c) Immorality.
(d) Crime.

13. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?
(a) 45.
(b) 12.
(c) 72.
(d) 21.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?

2. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?

3. 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)?

4. How many medals, including bronze, silver, and gold, did the exhibition of African American images at the World's Fair win?

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?

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