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

2. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?
(a) 21 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 5 years.

3. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1850.

4. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?
(a) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.
(b) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
(c) The Harlem Renaissance.
(d) The formation of the NAACP.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?

2. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

3. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?

4. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?

5. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?

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