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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. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) Canada.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) The United States.

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

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

4. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?
(a) A short story.
(b) A novel.
(c) A poem.
(d) A song.

5. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?
(a) As the dean of students.
(b) As a professor of anthropology.
(c) As a professor of natural history.
(d) As a professor of biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

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

3. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?

4. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?

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

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