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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 National League of Colored Women founded?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1952.

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

3. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?
(a) Culturally sophisticated.
(b) Married.
(c) Young.
(d) Educated.

4. How many quotes are provided within the epigraph section for Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

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

7. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?
(a) A coffin.
(b) A watermelon.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A shovel.

8. The Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?
(a) 200.
(b) 90.
(c) 40.
(d) 60.

9. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?
(a) 20%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 10%.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?

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

3. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?

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

5. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?

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