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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

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

5. 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) Dating white women.
(d) Voting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?

2. 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?

3. According to Gates, the two practices of sharecropping and convict leasing are both forms of what?

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

5. W.E.B DuBois created an exhibit for the World's Fair in Paris in what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Barbara Johnson define a stereotype and why does Gates consider her definition useful?

2. How many people are estimated to have been part of the Talented Tenth in 1920?

3. What was the difference between the circulation of images depicting black people before, versus after, the Civil War?

4. What percentage of African Americans lived in the South by 1900?

5. What examples does Gates provide for his claim that the "postwar American collective unconscious" was for a time "projected onto a host of everyday, ordinary consumer objects" (132)?

6. In what way does Gates acknowledge the problematic nature of some aspects of the New Negro movement?

7. What does Gates mean when he discusses the way in which the collective image of the African American in 1890s popular culture functioned like a visual mantra?

8. What percentage of the African American community was still enslaved in 1860?

9. Which gains in the area of racial equality made during Reconstruction had been lost by the arrival of the twentieth century?

10. For what purpose does Gates present the experience of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie within Part Three: Framing Blackness?

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