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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) Langston Hughes.
(b) Zora Neale Hurston.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

2. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Reclamation.
(b) Intermingling.
(c) Amalgamation.
(d) Abomination.

3. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Immanuel Kant.
(d) Rene Descartes.

4. 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)?
(a) Designed.
(b) Positive.
(c) Modern.
(d) Race.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

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

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?

4. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?

5. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

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