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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) Voting rights for African Americans.
(c) Lynching.
(d) Slavery.

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

3. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?
(a) Archtype.
(b) Trope.
(c) Superhero.
(d) Victory.

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

5. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1853,
(d) 1834,

Short Answer 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?

2. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

3. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

4. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

5. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

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