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

2. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Victor French.
(b) Cecil B. DeMille.
(c) D.W. Griffith.
(d) Elia Kazan.

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

4. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1866.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

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

3. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

4. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?

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

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