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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. Who wrote the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" (195)?
2. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?
3. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?
4. What film does Gates name as containing parodies of African American stereotypes?
5. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. For what reasons does Gates consider a particular Mississippi Supreme Court Justice's words about African Americans in 1898 so significant?
3. What percentage of African Americans lived in the South by 1900?
4. How does Barbara Johnson define a stereotype and why does Gates consider her definition useful?
5. What percentage of the African American community was still enslaved in 1860?
6. For what purpose does Gates present the experience of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie within Part Three: Framing Blackness?
7. For what purpose does Gates underscore the notion of agency within his discussion of the New Negro movement?
8. Name at least five qualities of an ideal member of the New Negro movement, according to the perspective of its members?
9. Explain the concept of the Talented Tenth advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois.
10. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the theme of invisibility portrayed in Stony the Road? Examine Gates, Jr.'s treatment of and messages regarding invisibility throughout the work.
Essay Topic 2
What is Gates, Jr.'s message regarding the difference between awareness and activism and how does Gates, Jr. get this message across to the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Read a lengthy interview with Gates, Jr.. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Gates, Jr.’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of Stony the Road.
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