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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. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?
(a) Cornell.
(b) William and Mary.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

2. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Slave or savage.
(b) Rapist or dolt.
(c) Poet or murderer.
(d) Slave or lecher.

3. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Alfalfa.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Corn.
(d) Cotton.

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

5. 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?
(a) 10%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 5%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

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

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?

4. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?

5. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

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