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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 year was the NAACP founded?

3. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?

4. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the sole reason for whites' wide distribution of racist images of African Americans in the late-nineteenth century?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. Explain the concept of the Talented Tenth advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois.

10. 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)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Gates, Jr.’s use of the first and second person point of view serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how Gates, Jr.’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.

Essay Topic 2

How are the themes of truth and deception depicted within Gates, Jr.’s book Stony the Road?

Essay Topic 3

How does Gates, Jr. employ the use or rejection of fallacy within Stony the Road and how does the inclusion of fallacy help Gates, Jr. to prove particular points made within the text?

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