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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. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1872.

2. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?
(a) 11.
(b) 43.
(c) 3.
(d) 22.

3. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) The two men were brothers-in-law.
(b) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.
(c) The two men were half-brothers.
(d) The two men were cousins.

4. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
(a) A set of stocks.
(b) A yoke for oxen.
(c) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(d) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.

5. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Frederick Hoffman.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

2. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?

4. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

5. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

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