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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, The Old Negro: Race, Science, Literature, and the Birth of Jim Crow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1860s.
(c) The 1880s.
(d) The 1920s.

2. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) The University of Illinois.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 9,000.

4. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1869.

5. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?
(a) The innate differences of black people.
(b) The constant stream of negative propaganda.
(c) The effects of slavery.
(d) The effects of malnutrition.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?

2. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?

3. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

4. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

5. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?

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