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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. 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?
(a) Race.
(b) Society.
(c) Culture.
(d) Economy.

2. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) Cecil B. DeMille.
(c) Victor French.
(d) D.W. Griffith.

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

4. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?
(a) Hodges.
(b) Post.
(c) Williams.
(d) Miller.

5. The anthology entitled The New Negro is said to have contained over how many pages?
(a) 600.
(b) 400.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?

2. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?

3. In what year was the Separate Car Act passed by the Louisiana legislature?

4. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

5. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

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