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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. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?
(a) Lomography.
(b) Chromolithography.
(c) Photography.
(d) Cartography.

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

3. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?
(a) Painting.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Theater.
(d) Dance.

4. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?
(a) 60%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 70%.

5. In what year was the Separate Car Act passed by the Louisiana legislature?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1910.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?

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

4. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?

5. In what year was the NAACP founded?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

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

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

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

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

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

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