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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. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?
(a) Frozen organs.
(b) Human skulls.
(c) Surgical instruments.
(d) Fetal pigs.

2. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) The United States.
(b) England.
(c) Canada.
(d) Germany.

3. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?
(a) The South.
(b) The North.
(c) The East.
(d) The West.

4. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Alfalfa.
(b) Corn.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Wheat.

5. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Designed.
(b) Race.
(c) Positive.
(d) Modern.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

2. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

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

4. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?

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

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