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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 taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?
(a) Yale.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Brown.

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

3. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?
(a) 20%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 5%.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?

3. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

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

5. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?

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