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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Texas.

4. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1910s.
(d) The 1840s.

5. The act of lynching was actually used to frighten African American men out of taking what action?
(a) Running for office.
(b) Dating white women.
(c) Voting.
(d) Getting married.

6. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

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

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

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

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

11. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?
(a) Buses.
(b) Automobiles.
(c) Trolleys.
(d) Trains.

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

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

14. 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 respectability.
(b) The moral imperative.
(c) The politics of oppression.
(d) The oppressive euphemism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?

3. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?

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

5. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?

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