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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. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Amalgamation.
(b) Intermingling.
(c) Reclamation.
(d) Abomination.

2. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1915.

3. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Cornell.
(d) William and Mary.

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

5. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?
(a) The notion that black people were a separate race from white people.
(b) The notion that there was an inherent hierarchy within each racial group.
(c) The notion that each race of people on earth should have its own leader.
(d) The notion that every race had had its own creator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?

2. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?

3. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?

4. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?

5. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

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