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

2. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?
(a) 12.
(b) 36.
(c) 24.
(d) 50.

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

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

5. Booker T. Washington believed that what type of work was most suited to the majority of African Americans?
(a) Academic.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Medical.
(d) Industrial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?

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

3. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Barbara Johnson define a stereotype and why does Gates consider her definition useful?

2. What was the difference between the circulation of images depicting black people before, versus after, the Civil War?

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

4. What percentage of African Americans lived in the South by 1900?

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

6. For what purpose does Gates underscore the notion of agency within his discussion of the New Negro movement?

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

8. For what purpose does Gates present the experience of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie within Part Three: Framing Blackness?

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

10. Which gains in the area of racial equality made during Reconstruction had been lost by the arrival of the twentieth century?

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