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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 185-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the NAACP founded?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1909.

2. What was the top honor earned by the exhibition of African American imagery at the World's Fair?
(a) The Blue Ribbon.
(b) The Piece de Resistance.
(c) The Grand Prix.
(d) The Grand Teton.

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Religion.
(b) Folklore.
(c) Astrology.
(d) Science.

4. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

5. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?
(a) Height.
(b) Genealogy.
(c) Regularity.
(d) Various physical traits.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1858, Frederick Douglass gave a speech asserting that he hated which group almost as much as he hated slaveholders?

2. How many medals, including bronze, silver, and gold, did the exhibition of African American images at the World's Fair win?

3. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?

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

5. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

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