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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. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?

2. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?

3. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?

4. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?

5. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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