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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. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?
(a) The formation of the NAACP.
(b) The Harlem Renaissance.
(c) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
(d) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.

2. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1900.

3. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) The United States.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Germany.

4. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?
(a) Eddie Murphy.
(b) Chris Rock.
(c) Kevin Hart.
(d) Steve Harvey.

5. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?
(a) Education.
(b) Politics.
(c) Skilled labor.
(d) Respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?

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

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?

4. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

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

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