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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. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?
(a) Point graphs.
(b) Bar graphs.
(c) Pie charts.
(d) Line graphs.

2. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?
(a) A coffin.
(b) A monkey.
(c) A shovel.
(d) A watermelon.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1858, Frederick Douglass gave a speech asserting that he hated which group almost as much as he hated slaveholders?

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

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

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

5. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reasons does Gates consider a particular Mississippi Supreme Court Justice's words about African Americans in 1898 so significant?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was the sole reason for whites' wide distribution of racist images of African Americans in the late-nineteenth century?

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

9. Which aspect of W.E.B. Du Bois's ideas about race does Gates find problematic?

10. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

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