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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) Height.
(b) Various physical traits.
(c) Genealogy.
(d) Regularity.

2. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Valeria Luiselli.
(b) Charles R. Johnson.
(c) Michael Donkor.
(d) Jesmyn Ward.

3. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Slave or savage.
(b) Poet or murderer.
(c) Slave or lecher.
(d) Rapist or dolt.

4. 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) 30%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 5%.

5. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1892.

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

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

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

9. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?
(a) Host.
(b) Guest speaker.
(c) Producer.
(d) Writer.

10. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1899.

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

12. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1878.

13. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Separation Age.
(b) The Iron Age.
(c) The Technological Age.
(d) The Gilded Age.

14. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.
(b) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(c) The Underground Railroad.
(d) Black military service in the Civil War.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

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

3. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

4. 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)?

5. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

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