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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 was the top honor earned by the exhibition of African American imagery at the World's Fair?

2. What was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?

3. How many years after the Plessy vs. Ferguson verdict did Charles W. Chesnutt publish his novel entitled The Marrow of Tradition?

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. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How many people are estimated to have been part of the Talented Tenth in 1920?

5. 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?

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

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

8. Explain the concept of the Talented Tenth advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois.

9. What did Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKenna write about African Americans in a majority opinion report in 1898?

10. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

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

Discuss Gates, Jr.’s use of Aristotle's appeals within the text of Stony the Road. How does Gates, Jr. use each of the three appeals to persuade the reader of argumentative points central to the tenets of the work?

Essay Topic 3

What ultimate message is Gates, Jr. sending about the nature and value of continually examining one’s own thought patterns and behaviors for signs of prejudice and awareness of privilege?

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