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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. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Positive.
(b) Race.
(c) Modern.
(d) Designed.

2. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) Yale.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Harvard.

3. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?
(a) Height.
(b) Various physical traits.
(c) Regularity.
(d) Genealogy.

4. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1877.

5. In what year was the NAACP founded?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?

2. The Separate Car act referred to what type of transportation?

3. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?

4. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

5. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?

(see the answer key)

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