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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 event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(b) The Underground Railroad.
(c) Black military service in the Civil War.
(d) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.

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

3. 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)?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1870s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1920s.

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

5. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Brown.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

2. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?

3. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

4. 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)?

5. In what year was the Separate Car Act passed by the Louisiana legislature?

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