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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 anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1860s.
(c) The 1880s.
(d) The 1850s.

2. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Slave or savage.
(b) Poet or murderer.
(c) Slave or lecher.
(d) Rapist or dolt.

3. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Valeria Luiselli.
(b) Jesmyn Ward.
(c) Charles R. Johnson.
(d) Michael Donkor.

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Alabama.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?

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

3. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

4. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

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

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