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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?
2. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?
3. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?
4. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?
5. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the sole reason for whites' wide distribution of racist images of African Americans in the late-nineteenth century?
2. Which aspect of W.E.B. Du Bois's ideas about race does Gates find problematic?
3. 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)?
4. For what purpose does Gates present the experience of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie within Part Three: Framing Blackness?
5. For what reasons does Gates consider a particular Mississippi Supreme Court Justice's words about African Americans in 1898 so significant?
6. For what reason does Gates refer to Homi K. Bhabha's discussion of stereotypes?
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. For what purpose does Gates underscore the notion of agency within his discussion of the New Negro movement?
9. Explain the concept of the Talented Tenth advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois.
10. What percentage of African Americans lived in the South by 1900?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Gates, Jr. employ the use or rejection of fallacy within Stony the Road and how does the inclusion of fallacy help Gates, Jr. to prove particular points made within the text?
Essay Topic 2
Examine Gates, Jr.’s use of characterization methods to portray real people. What effect do these characterization methods have on the work's inherent themes and messages?
Essay Topic 3
What is Gates, Jr.'s message regarding a particular shift in worldview that needs to occur within the minds of members of a particular group of people and why?
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