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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. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Reclamation.
(b) Abomination.
(c) Intermingling.
(d) Amalgamation.

2. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?
(a) Denmark Vesey.
(b) Joseph Cotten.
(c) Gabriel.
(d) Nat Turner.

3. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?
(a) 3.
(b) 11.
(c) 22.
(d) 43.

4. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1893.

5. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) .5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

2. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?

3. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?

4. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

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

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