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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) Eugenics.
(b) White supremacy.
(c) Scientific research.
(d) Miscegenation.

2. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?
(a) Just and true.
(b) Power and grace.
(c) Best and brightest.
(d) Well and born.

3. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1870.

4. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Curie.
(c) Maslow.
(d) Mendel.

5. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1883.

Short Answer Questions

1. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

2. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

3. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?

4. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?

5. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?

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