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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 did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1851.

2. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1892.

3. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

4. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Race.
(b) Designed.
(c) Positive.
(d) Modern.

5. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

2. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

3. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

4. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

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?

(see the answer key)

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