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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. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
2. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
3. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?
4. In what year was the National League of Colored Women founded?
5. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?
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 purpose does Gates present the experience of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie within Part Three: Framing Blackness?
3. In what way does Gates acknowledge the problematic nature of some aspects of the New Negro movement?
4. What percentage of African Americans lived in the South by 1900?
5. Which gains in the area of racial equality made during Reconstruction had been lost by the arrival of the twentieth century?
6. What was the intended goal of the group who launched the New Negro movement?
7. 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)?
8. For what purpose does Gates underscore the notion of agency within his discussion of the New Negro movement?
9. How does Barbara Johnson define a stereotype and why does Gates consider her definition useful?
10. Discuss the significance of Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What ultimate message is Gates, Jr. sending about the mythical qualities of the United States?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
How does Gates, Jr. use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.
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