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

2. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1845.

3. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1890.

4. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?
(a) Height.
(b) Genealogy.
(c) Various physical traits.
(d) Regularity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?

2. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

3. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

4. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?

5. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

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