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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, The Old Negro: Race, Science, Literature, and the Birth of Jim Crow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Washington, D.C.

2. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?
(a) As a professor of natural history.
(b) As the dean of students.
(c) As a professor of biology.
(d) As a professor of anthropology.

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 9,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 3,000.

4. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Valeria Luiselli.
(b) Charles R. Johnson.
(c) Michael Donkor.
(d) Jesmyn Ward.

5. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Educational.
(b) Agricultural.
(c) Medical.
(d) Legal.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

2. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

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

4. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?

5. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

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