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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. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?
(a) In a library.
(b) Indoors.
(c) In a classroom.
(d) Outdoors.

2. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Langston Hughes.

3. Gates urges the reader to think about the concept of the New Negro as a "metaphorical form of" (186) what?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) Lynching.
(d) The Harlem Renaissance.

4. The concept of the New Negro was used by a subgroup of African Americans between which two years?
(a) 1894 and 1909.
(b) 1894 and 1925.
(c) 1872 and 1910.
(d) 1901 and 1910.

5. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Frederick Hoffman.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

2. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?

3. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

4. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

5. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?

(see the answer key)

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