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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. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
(a) A set of stocks.
(b) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(c) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.
(d) A yoke for oxen.

2. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Corn.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Alfalfa.

3. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1901.

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?
(a) The East.
(b) The West.
(c) The South.
(d) The North.

5. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?
(a) Brown.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?

2. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

3. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?

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

5. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

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