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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. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?
(a) Legal and representational.
(b) Representational and violent.
(c) Medical and legal.
(d) Logical and emotional.

2. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
(c) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(d) Chinua Achebe.

3. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1915.

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

5. What aspect of the African American male identity could not be contained, according to people opposing miscegenation?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) A thirst for homicide.
(d) Physical strength.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?

3. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?

4. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?

5. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

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