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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. What term does Barbara Johnson define as "an already read text" (131)?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Xenophobe.
(c) Abolitionist.
(d) Slave.

2. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1932.

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

4. In what year was the NAACP founded?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1909.

5. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?
(a) Power and grace.
(b) Best and brightest.
(c) Well and born.
(d) Just and true.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?

2. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?

3. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?

4. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

5. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?

(see the answer key)

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