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

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

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

4. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?
(a) Line graphs.
(b) Point graphs.
(c) Pie charts.
(d) Bar graphs.

5. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?
(a) Miller.
(b) Williams.
(c) Post.
(d) Hodges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?

2. Sambo art was presented as evidence that African Americans had no what?

3. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?

4. W.E.B. Du Bois expressed in 1960 that he and his colleagues at Harvard in the 1920s had viewed themselves as "combatants" (199) in a war of what kind?

5. Movements such as the New Negro Movement and the concept of the Talented Tenth are today brought together under which moniker?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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