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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. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Denmark.
(d) The United States.

2. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) The two men were cousins.
(b) The two men were half-brothers.
(c) The two men were brothers-in-law.
(d) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.

3. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?
(a) 22.
(b) 43.
(c) 3.
(d) 11.

4. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1882.

5. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?
(a) Chris Rock.
(b) Eddie Murphy.
(c) Steve Harvey.
(d) Kevin Hart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Sambo art was presented as evidence that African Americans had no what?

3. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?

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

5. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

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