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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. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) Yale.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Harvard.

2. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?
(a) White supremacy.
(b) Scientific research.
(c) Eugenics.
(d) Miscegenation.

3. The section of Part Four: The New Negro entitled "Reframing Race: Enter the New Negro" contains a sampling of what type of art?
(a) Dance.
(b) Photography.
(c) Painting.
(d) Etching.

4. Who is named as the only writer within the Harlem Renaissance to have embraced jazz music?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) James Weldon Johnson.
(c) Gwendolyn B. Bennett.
(d) James Baldwin.

5. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1900.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What aspect of the African American male identity could not be contained, according to people opposing miscegenation?

4. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?

5. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?

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