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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 Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?
(a) The constant stream of negative propaganda.
(b) The effects of malnutrition.
(c) The effects of slavery.
(d) The innate differences of black people.

2. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Victor French.
(b) D.W. Griffith.
(c) Cecil B. DeMille.
(d) Elia Kazan.

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

4. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) Jefferson Davis.
(b) Edward A. Pollard.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

5. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?
(a) The early 1800s.
(b) The mid-1700s.
(c) The mid-1800s.
(d) The late 1800s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?

2. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

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. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?

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

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