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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Part One, Antislavery/Antislave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 21 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 12 years.

2. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Educational.
(c) Medical.
(d) Legal.

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

4. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Eugenics.
(c) White supremacy.
(d) Scientific research.

5. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?
(a) The New Negro
(b) The New Negro Rebirth.
(c) The New Negro Manifesto.
(d) The New Negro Renaissance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?

2. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

3. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

4. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

5. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?

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