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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 asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Skilled labor.
(c) Education.
(d) Respect.

2. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1888.

3. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1896.

4. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1866.

5. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?
(a) Fetal pigs.
(b) Human skulls.
(c) Surgical instruments.
(d) Frozen organs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

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

3. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

4. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

5. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?

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