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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the African American male identity could not be contained, according to people opposing miscegenation?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) A thirst for homicide.
(d) Physical strength.

2. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?
(a) Parody.
(b) Satire.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Fiction.

3. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1893.

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

5. According to Gates, the two practices of sharecropping and convict leasing are both forms of what?
(a) Neo-slavery.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Pseudo-slavery.
(d) Continued oppression.

6. What was NOT a quality of African Americans that Du Bois wrote needed to be curtailed before the fight for equality could be won?
(a) Laziness.
(b) Materialism.
(c) Crime.
(d) Immorality.

7. In what year was the National League of Colored Women founded?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1912.

8. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?
(a) Chinua Achebe.
(b) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(c) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
(d) Toni Morrison.

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

10. Who wrote the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" (195)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

11. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?
(a) A monkey.
(b) A shovel.
(c) A watermelon.
(d) A coffin.

12. 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) Economy.
(d) Culture.

13. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1870s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1850s.

14. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Sexual desire.
(c) The pursuit of happiness.
(d) Health.

15. The act of lynching was actually used to frighten African American men out of taking what action?
(a) Running for office.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Voting.
(d) Dating white women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?

2. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?

3. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?

4. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?

5. In 1858, Frederick Douglass gave a speech asserting that he hated which group almost as much as he hated slaveholders?

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