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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 was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1888.

2. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
(a) Ralph Ellison.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Frederick Hoffman.

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

4. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1899.

5. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Voting rights for African Americans.
(c) Miscegenation.
(d) Lynching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?

2. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?

3. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

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

5. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

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