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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 Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1853,
(b) 1834,
(c) 1845.
(d) 1870.

2. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) The United States.
(b) England.
(c) Canada.
(d) Germany.

3. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1871.

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

5. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1860s.
(c) The 1850s.
(d) The 1880s.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

3. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?

4. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

5. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?

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