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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. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Rene Descartes.
(c) Immanuel Kant.
(d) Charles Darwin.

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

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

4. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?
(a) Canada.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Greece.
(d) France.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?

2. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

3. In what year was the NAACP founded?

4. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

5. The historian Brian Roberts states that by what year, "Blackface was everywhere in American culture" (147)?

(see the answer key)

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