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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 abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1899.

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

3. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?

2. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

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

4. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

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

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