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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. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1866.

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

3. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) Black military service in the Civil War.
(b) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(c) The Underground Railroad.
(d) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.

4. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1899.

5. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1901.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?

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

3. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

4. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

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

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