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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Vermont.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Virginia.

3. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

4. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?
(a) Sambo art.
(b) Race art.
(c) The art of oppression.
(d) Signal and sign.

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

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

7. What was the approximate population of African Americans within the United States in 1920?
(a) 30,000,000.
(b) 80,000,000.
(c) 50,000,000.
(d) 10,000,000.

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

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

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

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

12. The Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?
(a) 200.
(b) 60.
(c) 90.
(d) 40.

13. What kinds of graphs were used in the World's Fair exhibition to indicate the social and economic progress of African Americans since Emancipation?
(a) Bar graphs.
(b) Line graphs.
(c) Pie charts.
(d) Point graphs.

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

15. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?
(a) 45.
(b) 72.
(c) 21.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

2. The act of lynching was actually used to frighten African American men out of taking what action?

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

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

5. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?

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