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

2. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?
(a) Joseph Cotten.
(b) Nat Turner.
(c) Denmark Vesey.
(d) Gabriel.

3. In what discipline did the first African American man to earn a PhD earn his degree?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Theology.
(d) Sociology.

4. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?
(a) Medical and legal.
(b) Logical and emotional.
(c) Representational and violent.
(d) Legal and representational.

5. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1877.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?

3. How many quotes are provided within the epigraph section for Part Three: Framing Blackness?

4. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?

5. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the two forms of what Gates and others call "neo-slavery" (186).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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