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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) 11.
(b) 27.
(c) 18.
(d) 41.

2. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The Underground Railroad.
(b) Black military service in the Civil War.
(c) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(d) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.

3. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) Yale.
(b) The University of Illinois.
(c) Harvard.
(d) The University of Pennsylvania.

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

5. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Macon.
(d) Tupelo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

2. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?

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

5. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

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