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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 was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1878.
(d) 1868.

2. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?
(a) William and Mary.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cornell.

3. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1890.

4. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(b) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.
(c) The Underground Railroad.
(d) Black military service in the Civil War.

5. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Medical.
(c) Educational.
(d) Legal.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?

2. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

3. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

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

5. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

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