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

2. 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 Technological Age.
(b) The Iron Age.
(c) The Gilded Age.
(d) The Separation Age.

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

4. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1845.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

3. 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)?

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?

5. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?

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