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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?
(a) Rape.
(b) Insubordination.
(c) Murder.
(d) Theft.

3. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) Yale.
(c) The University of Illinois.
(d) Harvard.

4. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1925.

5. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1877.

Short Answer Questions

1. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?

2. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?

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

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

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

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