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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of art was featured in the World's Fair exhibit depicting African Americans?
(a) Sculpture.
(b) Painting.
(c) Photography.
(d) Etching.

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

4. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1911.

5. Who termed the members of the New Negro movement as the Talented Tenth?
(a) W.E.C. Wright.
(b) Alain Locke.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

6. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?
(a) Charles W. Chesnutt.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

7. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?
(a) 1.
(b) .5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

9. Movements such as the New Negro Movement and the concept of the Talented Tenth are today brought together under which moniker?
(a) The politics of oppression.
(b) The moral imperative.
(c) The oppressive euphemism.
(d) The politics of respectability.

10. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Greece.
(c) France.
(d) Canada.

11. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?
(a) Cartography.
(b) Lomography.
(c) Chromolithography.
(d) Photography.

12. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?
(a) Carter G. Woodson.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Edward W. Clay.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

13. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Texas.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

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

15. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1900.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

2. What film does Gates name as containing parodies of African American stereotypes?

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

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

5. How many colors were able to be printed in advertising using the technique of chromolithography?

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