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

2. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?
(a) 18.
(b) 27.
(c) 41.
(d) 11.

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Folklore.
(d) Astrology.

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

5. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1892.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?

3. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?

4. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?

5. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?

(see the answer key)

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