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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 10%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 20%.

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

3. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?
(a) 80%.
(b) 70%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 90%.

4. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Immanuel Kant.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Rene Descartes.

5. Sambo art was presented as evidence that African Americans had no what?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Morality.
(d) Intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

3. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

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. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

(see the answer key)

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