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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. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1833.

2. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?
(a) The New Negro Rebirth.
(b) The New Negro Renaissance.
(c) The New Negro
(d) The New Negro Manifesto.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

2. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?

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

4. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

5. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?

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