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

2. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?
(a) Trolleys.
(b) Trains.
(c) Buses.
(d) Automobiles.

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

4. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?
(a) Frozen organs.
(b) Human skulls.
(c) Surgical instruments.
(d) Fetal pigs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?

2. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?

3. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?

4. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?

5. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

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