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

2. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?

3. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. For what reasons does Gates consider a particular Mississippi Supreme Court Justice's words about African Americans in 1898 so significant?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Examine Gates, Jr.’s use of characterization methods to portray real people. What effect do these characterization methods have on the work's inherent themes and messages?

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