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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 the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1834.

2. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) Cecil B. DeMille.
(c) D.W. Griffith.
(d) Victor French.

3. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1850.

4. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
(a) A set of stocks.
(b) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.
(c) A yoke for oxen.
(d) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

2. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

3. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

4. 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)?

5. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

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