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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. Booker T. Washington believed that what type of work was most suited to the majority of African Americans?
(a) Medical.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Academic.

2. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Alain Locke.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) W.E.C. Wright.

3. In what discipline did the first African American man to earn a PhD earn his degree?
(a) Theology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Anthropology.

4. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?
(a) As a professor of anthropology.
(b) As a professor of biology.
(c) As a professor of natural history.
(d) As the dean of students.

5. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1900.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?

2. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?

3. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?

4. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

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