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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?
(a) Dance.
(b) Theater.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of art was featured in the World's Fair exhibit depicting African Americans?

2. 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?

3. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?

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

5. What aspect of the African American male identity could not be contained, according to people opposing miscegenation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gates mean when he discusses the way in which the collective image of the African American in 1890s popular culture functioned like a visual mantra?

2. Name at least five qualities of an ideal member of the New Negro movement, according to the perspective of its members?

3. In what way does Gates acknowledge the problematic nature of some aspects of the New Negro movement?

4. What was the intended goal of the group who launched the New Negro movement?

5. Discuss the significance of Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech.

6. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

7. How many people are estimated to have been part of the Talented Tenth in 1920?

8. For what reason does Gates refer to Homi K. Bhabha's discussion of stereotypes?

9. What percentage of the African American community was still enslaved in 1860?

10. What element caused the New Negro movement to emerge?

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