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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. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?
(a) Superhero.
(b) Archtype.
(c) Trope.
(d) Victory.

2. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?
(a) The notion that every race had had its own creator.
(b) The notion that each race of people on earth should have its own leader.
(c) The notion that black people were a separate race from white people.
(d) The notion that there was an inherent hierarchy within each racial group.

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

4. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Folklore.
(b) Astrology.
(c) Science.
(d) Religion.

5. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) Yale.
(b) The University of Illinois.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

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

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

4. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?

5. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

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