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

2. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 21 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 12 years.

3. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Technological Age.
(b) The Gilded Age.
(c) The Separation Age.
(d) The Iron Age.

4. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1870.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?

2. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?

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

4. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

5. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?

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