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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 is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?
(a) Who You Are.
(b) Unchained Memories.
(c) African American Lives.
(d) DNA Uncovered.

2. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Alabama.

3. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Curie.
(c) Mendel.
(d) Maslow.

4. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1866.

5. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1813.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

4. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?

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

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