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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Alain Locke.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) W.E.C. Wright.

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

3. Gates urges the reader to think about the concept of the New Negro as a "metaphorical form of" (186) what?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) The Harlem Renaissance.
(d) Lynching.

4. What was the top honor earned by the exhibition of African American imagery at the World's Fair?
(a) The Grand Prix.
(b) The Piece de Resistance.
(c) The Grand Teton.
(d) The Blue Ribbon.

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

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

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

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

9. 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) Charles W. Chesnutt.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

10. 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) The art of oppression.
(b) Sambo art.
(c) Signal and sign.
(d) Race art.

11. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1920.

12. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?
(a) 12.
(b) 72.
(c) 45.
(d) 21.

13. Sambo art was presented as evidence that African Americans had no what?
(a) Morality.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Intelligence.

14. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1859.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the surname of the first African American to ever earn a PhD?

2. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?

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

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

5. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?

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