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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?
(a) Regularity.
(b) Height.
(c) Genealogy.
(d) Various physical traits.

2. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Brown.
(d) Cornell.

3. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Harvard.

4. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Abomination.
(b) Intermingling.
(c) Amalgamation.
(d) Reclamation.

5. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1870.

6. 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) Race.
(b) Designed.
(c) Positive.
(d) Modern.

7. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?
(a) Voting rights for African Americans.
(b) Lynching.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Miscegenation.

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

9. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Maslow.
(c) Mendel.
(d) Curie.

10. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

12. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1934.

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

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

15. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?
(a) 5%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 20%.

Short Answer Questions

1. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

2. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?

3. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?

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

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

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