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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. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 50,000.

2. 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.

3. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1843.

4. What term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?
(a) Abolitionist.
(b) Xenophobe.
(c) Stereotype.
(d) Slave.

5. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?
(a) Canada.
(b) Mexico.
(c) France.
(d) Greece.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?

4. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?

5. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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

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