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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. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Jesmyn Ward.
(b) Charles R. Johnson.
(c) Valeria Luiselli.
(d) Michael Donkor.

2. Booker T. Washington believed that what type of work was most suited to the majority of African Americans?
(a) Medical.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Academic.

3. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1854.

4. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?
(a) Legal and representational.
(b) Logical and emotional.
(c) Medical and legal.
(d) Representational and violent.

5. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?
(a) Fear.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Awe.
(d) Apathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

2. W.E.B. Du Bois expressed in 1960 that he and his colleagues at Harvard in the 1920s had viewed themselves as "combatants" (199) in a war of what kind?

3. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?

5. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

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