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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. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Fear.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Awe.

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

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

4. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?
(a) The formation of the NAACP.
(b) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.
(c) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
(d) The Harlem Renaissance.

5. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) Canada.
(b) England.
(c) The United States.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?

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

3. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

4. The Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?

5. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?

(see the answer key)

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