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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. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?
(a) The 1910s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1840s.
(d) The 1890s.

2. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?
(a) The mid-1700s.
(b) The late 1800s.
(c) The early 1800s.
(d) The mid-1800s.

3. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Amalgamation.
(b) Abomination.
(c) Intermingling.
(d) Reclamation.

4. Alain Locke asserted that art was in a completely different sphere of life than what other element?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Politics.
(c) Aesthetics.
(d) Economics.

5. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?
(a) 5%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 20%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fundamentally disagreed with Locke's notion of art being entirely separate from some other element of life?

2. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?

3. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?

4. How many members were part of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers upon the group's creation?

5. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

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