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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. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) The two men were half-brothers.
(b) The two men were cousins.
(c) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.
(d) The two men were brothers-in-law.

2. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?
(a) The mid-1800s.
(b) The mid-1700s.
(c) The late 1800s.
(d) The early 1800s.

3. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?
(a) Education.
(b) Skilled labor.
(c) Respect.
(d) Politics.

4. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1965.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?

2. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

3. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

4. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

5. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?

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