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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 did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1831.

2. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?
(a) A timeline.
(b) A manifesto.
(c) A poem.
(d) An illustration.

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 West.
(d) The East.

4. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) The two men were brothers-in-law.
(b) The two men were half-brothers.
(c) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.
(d) The two men were cousins.

5. In what discipline did the first African American man to earn a PhD earn his degree?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Theology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Anthropology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?

2. Who wrote the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" (195)?

3. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?

4. What was the surname of the woman who founded the National League of Colored Women?

5. Gates expresses shock at whose endorsement of "restrictions on the right to vote among the black poor" (201)?

(see the answer key)

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