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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 was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?
(a) 10,000,000.
(b) 50,000,000.
(c) 30,000,000.
(d) 80,000,000.

2. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They all lived in the 19th century.
(b) They are African American.
(c) They are experts in visual rhetoric.
(d) They are female.

3. What was the top honor earned by the exhibition of African American imagery at the World's Fair?
(a) The Grand Prix.
(b) The Piece de Resistance.
(c) The Grand Teton.
(d) The Blue Ribbon.

4. What term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Xenophobe.
(c) Slave.
(d) Abolitionist.

5. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

2. The concept of the New Negro was used by a subgroup of African Americans between which two years?

3. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

4. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

5. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

(see the answer key)

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