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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They are female.
(b) They all lived in the 19th century.
(c) They are experts in visual rhetoric.
(d) They are African American.

2. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1866.

3. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?
(a) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
(b) Chinua Achebe.
(c) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(d) Toni Morrison.

4. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1899.

5. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?
(a) Who You Are.
(b) African American Lives.
(c) Unchained Memories.
(d) DNA Uncovered.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade was the image of the "New Negro" (127) put forth by African Americans in order to counteract the effects of "representational oppression" (127)?

2. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?

3. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?

4. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?

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