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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 185-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1834.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1903.

2. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?
(a) Religion.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Science.
(d) Folklore.

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

4. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?
(a) The pursuit of happiness.
(b) Health.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Sexual desire.

5. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) Edward A. Pollard.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?

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

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

4. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

5. In what medium was the work of art entitled A Negro with Chains Broken but Not Off composed?

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