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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. In what discipline did the first African American man to earn a PhD earn his degree?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Theology.
(d) Psychology.

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

3. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?
(a) Automobiles.
(b) Trolleys.
(c) Buses.
(d) Trains.

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

5. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
(a) Ralph Ellison.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Frederick Hoffman.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?

2. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?

3. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?

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

5. How many quotes are provided within the epigraph section for Part Three: Framing Blackness?

(see the answer key)

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