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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. Sambo art was presented as evidence that African Americans had no what?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Morality.

2. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) Canada.
(b) The United States.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

3. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Carter G. Woodson.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Edward W. Clay.

4. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1851.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

2. Multicolor advertisements became cheaper to produce after the Civil War due to which development?

3. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?

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

5. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?

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