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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. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Frederick Hoffman.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

2. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1868.

3. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Education.
(c) Skilled labor.
(d) Respect.

4. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1853,
(c) 1834,
(d) 1845.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?

2. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?

3. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?

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

5. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?

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