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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?
(a) Theft.
(b) Rape.
(c) Murder.
(d) Insubordination.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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 1890s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1870s.
(d) The 1920s.

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

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

12. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?
(a) 5.
(b) 35.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

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

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

15. 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?
(a) Economy.
(b) Culture.
(c) Society.
(d) Race.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the National League of Colored Women founded?

2. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?

3. How many quotes are provided within the epigraph section for Part Three: Framing Blackness?

4. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?

5. In what year was the NAACP founded?

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