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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. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Rapist or dolt.
(b) Slave or savage.
(c) Slave or lecher.
(d) Poet or murderer.

2. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Victor French.
(b) Cecil B. DeMille.
(c) D.W. Griffith.
(d) Elia Kazan.

3. What percentage of African Americans were still in bondage in 1860?
(a) 60%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 70%.

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

5. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) The United States.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

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

3. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

4. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?

5. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?

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