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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 Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1896.

2. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
(a) A set of stocks.
(b) A yoke for oxen.
(c) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(d) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.

3. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Satire.
(d) Parody.

4. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?
(a) Superhero.
(b) Victory.
(c) Archtype.
(d) Trope.

5. Gates states that how many "in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor" (146)?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) .5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?

2. In what year was the NAACP founded?

3. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

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

5. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?

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