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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. In what year was the NAACP founded?

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

4. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?

5. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. How does Barbara Johnson define a stereotype and why does Gates consider her definition useful?

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

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

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

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 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

What is the ultimate purpose behind Gates, Jr.’s inclusion of visual images within Stony the Road?

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