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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. Sambo art was presented as evidence that African Americans had no what?
2. In what year was the NAACP founded?
3. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?
4. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?
5. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?
Short Essay Questions
1. What element caused the New Negro movement to emerge?
2. What was the difference between the circulation of images depicting black people before, versus after, the Civil War?
3. What was the sole reason for whites' wide distribution of racist images of African Americans in the late-nineteenth century?
4. For what purpose does Gates present the experience of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie within Part Three: Framing Blackness?
5. Which gains in the area of racial equality made during Reconstruction had been lost by the arrival of the twentieth century?
6. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.
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 reasons does Gates consider a particular Mississippi Supreme Court Justice's words about African Americans in 1898 so significant?
9. For what reason does Gates refer to Homi K. Bhabha's discussion of stereotypes?
10. What is Gates's reason for citing and discussing W.E.B. Du Bois's few problematic views?
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
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?
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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