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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Race art.
(d) Signal and sign.

2. 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) Race.
(b) Economy.
(c) Society.
(d) Culture.

3. What aspect of the African American male identity could not be contained, according to people opposing miscegenation?
(a) A thirst for homicide.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Physical strength.
(d) Intelligence.

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

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

6. What was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?
(a) 10,000,000.
(b) 80,000,000.
(c) 30,000,000.
(d) 50,000,000.

7. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

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

9. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?
(a) Cartography.
(b) Lomography.
(c) Chromolithography.
(d) Photography.

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

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

12. In 1858, Frederick Douglass gave a speech asserting that he hated which group almost as much as he hated slaveholders?
(a) Contented slaves.
(b) Southern law enforcement officers.
(c) Ignorant Southerners.
(d) Apathetic Northerners.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the NAACP founded?

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

3. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?

4. What term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?

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

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