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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 214-245 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Germany.
(d) The United States.

2. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1901.

3. Sambo art was presented as evidence that African Americans had no what?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Morality.

4. The act of lynching was actually used to frighten African American men out of taking what action?
(a) Running for office.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Voting.
(d) Dating white women.

5. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?
(a) Brown.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

2. Who was "anointed in the white press as the manifestation, the embodiment, of the New Negro" (191)?

3. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?

4. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?

5. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

(see the answer key)

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