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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) Chromolithography.
(b) Photography.
(c) Lomography.
(d) Cartography.

2. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Satire.
(c) Parody.
(d) Cooperation.

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

4. The act of lynching was actually used to frighten African American men out of taking what action?
(a) Voting.
(b) Dating white women.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Running for office.

5. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 25.
(d) 35.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?

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

4. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

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