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

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

3. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Alfalfa.
(c) Corn.
(d) Cotton.

4. The Wilmington race riot of 1898 is thought to have resulted in the deaths of how many African Americans?
(a) 40.
(b) 200.
(c) 90.
(d) 60.

5. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?
(a) The mid-1700s.
(b) The late 1800s.
(c) The early 1800s.
(d) The mid-1800s.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?

4. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?

5. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?

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