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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. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Alain Locke.
(d) W.E.C. Wright.

2. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?
(a) An illustration.
(b) A manifesto.
(c) A poem.
(d) A timeline.

3. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?
(a) Culturally sophisticated.
(b) Young.
(c) Educated.
(d) Married.

4. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They are female.
(b) They all lived in the 19th century.
(c) They are African American.
(d) They are experts in visual rhetoric.

5. What film does Gates name as containing parodies of African American stereotypes?
(a) Pulp Fiction.
(b) Django Unchained.
(c) Bamboozled.
(d) Do the Right Thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade was the image of the "New Negro" (127) put forth by African Americans in order to counteract the effects of "representational oppression" (127)?

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

3. What was the surname of the first African American to ever earn a PhD?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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