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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. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.
(b) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(c) The Underground Railroad.
(d) Black military service in the Civil War.

2. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1853,
(b) 1870.
(c) 1834,
(d) 1845.

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

4. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Reclamation.
(b) Intermingling.
(c) Amalgamation.
(d) Abomination.

5. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?
(a) Brown.
(b) Yale.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

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

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. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

5. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

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