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

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

3. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1877.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

2. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

3. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?

4. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

5. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?

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