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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 term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?
(a) Xenophobe.
(b) Slave.
(c) Stereotype.
(d) Abolitionist.

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

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

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

5. In what decade was the image of the "New Negro" (127) put forth by African Americans in order to counteract the effects of "representational oppression" (127)?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1870s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1890s.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?

2. What film does Gates name as containing parodies of African American stereotypes?

3. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?

4. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?

5. In what year was the Separate Car Act passed by the Louisiana legislature?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the concept of the Talented Tenth advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

3. What examples does Gates provide for his claim that the "postwar American collective unconscious" was for a time "projected onto a host of everyday, ordinary consumer objects" (132)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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