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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 Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Eugenics.
(c) Scientific research.
(d) White supremacy.

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

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

4. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?
(a) A song.
(b) A short story.
(c) A novel.
(d) A poem.

5. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?
(a) Trope.
(b) Archtype.
(c) Superhero.
(d) Victory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?

2. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?

3. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?

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

5. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

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