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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. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1903.

2. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?
(a) 27.
(b) 11.
(c) 41.
(d) 18.

3. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Maslow.
(b) Mendel.
(c) Curie.
(d) Darwin.

4. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) The University of Illinois.
(d) The University of Pennsylvania.

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) Politics.
(b) Respect.
(c) Skilled labor.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

2. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?

3. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?

4. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

5. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?

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