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

2. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1926.

3. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Ralph Ellison.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?

2. The Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?

3. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Gates's reason for citing and discussing W.E.B. Du Bois's few problematic views?

5. What did Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKenna write about African Americans in a majority opinion report in 1898?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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