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

2. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1883.

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 4,000.

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

5. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

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

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

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

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