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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?

2. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?

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

4. In what discipline did the first African American man to earn a PhD earn his degree?

5. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that discusses the symbolism of the cover art chosen for Stony the Road.

Essay Topic 2

In what way does Gates, Jr. go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance the text’s arguments?

Essay Topic 3

What is Gates, Jr.'s message regarding a particular shift in worldview that needs to occur within the minds of members of a particular group of people and why?

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