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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. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Astrology.
(b) Science.
(c) Folklore.
(d) Religion.

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

3. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?
(a) Nat Turner.
(b) Gabriel.
(c) Denmark Vesey.
(d) Joseph Cotten.

4. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?
(a) Sexual desire.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Health.
(d) The pursuit of happiness.

5. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?
(a) The East.
(b) The West.
(c) The South.
(d) The North.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

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

4. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?

5. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?

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