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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?
(a) Logical and emotional.
(b) Representational and violent.
(c) Medical and legal.
(d) Legal and representational.

3. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. The concept of the New Negro was used by a subgroup of African Americans between which two years?
(a) 1894 and 1909.
(b) 1894 and 1925.
(c) 1872 and 1910.
(d) 1901 and 1910.

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

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

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

8. In what year was the NAACP founded?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1957.

9. 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) Line graphs.
(c) Pie charts.
(d) Point graphs.

10. 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 experts in visual rhetoric.
(c) They all lived in the 19th century.
(d) They are African American.

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

12. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Charles W. Chesnutt.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?

2. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?

3. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?

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

5. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?

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