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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. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Zora Neale Hurston.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

2. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1864.

3. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Edward A. Pollard.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

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

5. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Iron Age.
(b) The Gilded Age.
(c) The Technological Age.
(d) The Separation Age.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

2. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

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

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?

5. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?

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