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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. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?
(a) 41.
(b) 27.
(c) 18.
(d) 11.

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

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

4. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?
(a) Genealogy.
(b) Height.
(c) Various physical traits.
(d) Regularity.

5. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?

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

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

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

5. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

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