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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 30,000.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?
(a) Unfortunate.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Infamous.
(d) Famous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?

2. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?

3. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?

4. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?

5. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?

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