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

2. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

3. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They all lived in the 19th century.
(b) They are African American.
(c) They are experts in visual rhetoric.
(d) They are female.

4. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?
(a) Booker T. Washington.
(b) Edward W. Clay.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Carter G. Woodson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?

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

3. How many quotes are provided within the epigraph section for Part Three: Framing Blackness?

4. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

5. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?

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