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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 the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1854.

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

3. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?
(a) Kevin Hart.
(b) Steve Harvey.
(c) Chris Rock.
(d) Eddie Murphy.

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) Modern.
(b) Designed.
(c) Positive.
(d) Race.

5. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Voting rights for African Americans.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Lynching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?

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

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

4. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

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

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