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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. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1833.

2. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1863.

3. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(b) Black military service in the Civil War.
(c) The Underground Railroad.
(d) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?

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

3. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?

4. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?

5. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?

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