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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. In what organization did Victoria Earle Matthews hold the position of executive board chairperson?
(a) The Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
(b) The National Association of Colored Women.
(c) The Eugenics Association.
(d) The Red Cross.

2. How many medals, including bronze, silver, and gold, did the exhibition of African American images at the World's Fair win?
(a) 15.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 22.

3. The works of how many white writers were included within the anthology entitled The New Negro?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

4. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?
(a) Fetal pigs.
(b) Surgical instruments.
(c) Human skulls.
(d) Frozen organs.

5. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?
(a) Married.
(b) Educated.
(c) Young.
(d) Culturally sophisticated.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

3. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?

4. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?

5. Gates expresses the goal of publishing a book containing what objects in the future?

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