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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. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. According to Gates, the two practices of sharecropping and convict leasing are both forms of what?
(a) Jim Crow laws.
(b) Pseudo-slavery.
(c) Continued oppression.
(d) Neo-slavery.

3. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?
(a) Insubordination.
(b) Theft.
(c) Murder.
(d) Rape.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?

2. Who wrote the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" (195)?

3. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

4. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?

5. What was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Name at least five qualities of an ideal member of the New Negro movement, according to the perspective of its members?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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)?

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

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