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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. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?
(a) Scientific research.
(b) Eugenics.
(c) White supremacy.
(d) Miscegenation.

2. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 9,000.

3. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1901.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?

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

3. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

4. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

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

(see the answer key)

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