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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. 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)?
(a) Race art.
(b) Sambo art.
(c) The art of oppression.
(d) Signal and sign.

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

3. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1850.

4. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?
(a) 43.
(b) 22.
(c) 3.
(d) 11.

5. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?

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

3. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?

4. Booker T. Washington believed that what type of work was most suited to the majority of African Americans?

5. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?

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