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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?
(a) Sexual desire.
(b) Compassion.
(c) The pursuit of happiness.
(d) Health.

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

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

6. How many works of art were presented within the African-American exhibit at the World's Fair?
(a) 248.
(b) 88.
(c) 336.
(d) 134.

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

8. 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) Culture.
(c) Economy.
(d) Society.

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

10. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?
(a) 60%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 70%.

11. What type of art was featured in the World's Fair exhibit depicting African Americans?
(a) Photography.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Painting.
(d) Etching.

12. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Vermont.
(d) North Carolina.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?

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

3. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?

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

5. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?

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