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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. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1890.

2. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1853,
(d) 1834,

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

4. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?
(a) Chris Rock.
(b) Kevin Hart.
(c) Steve Harvey.
(d) Eddie Murphy.

5. The Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?
(a) 40.
(b) 90.
(c) 200.
(d) 60.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?

2. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?

3. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?

4. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

5. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

(see the answer key)

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