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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 was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1965.

2. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?
(a) A short story.
(b) A novel.
(c) A poem.
(d) A song.

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

4. 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) 20%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 30%.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?

2. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?

3. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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