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

2. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1813.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1789.

3. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?
(a) A watermelon.
(b) A coffin.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A shovel.

4. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?
(a) Eugenics.
(b) Miscegenation.
(c) White supremacy.
(d) Scientific research.

5. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?
(a) As a professor of anthropology.
(b) As the dean of students.
(c) As a professor of natural history.
(d) As a professor of biology.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?

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

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