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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. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?
(a) Yale.
(b) Brown.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Harvard.

2. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?
(a) Immanuel Kant.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Rene Descartes.

3. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?
(a) Chris Rock.
(b) Kevin Hart.
(c) Eddie Murphy.
(d) Steve Harvey.

4. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Educational.
(b) Medical.
(c) Agricultural.
(d) Legal.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?

4. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?

5. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?

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