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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 214-245 and Epilogue.

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

2. In what year was the National League of Colored Women founded?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1912.

3. Who wrote the essay entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Gwendolyn B. Bennett.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

4. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?
(a) Mexico.
(b) France.
(c) Greece.
(d) Canada.

5. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?
(a) A nadir.
(b) A fadir.
(c) A fatwa.
(d) A fakir.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?

2. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?

3. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

4. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

5. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

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