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

2. How many pages did the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" contain?
(a) 72.
(b) 45.
(c) 21.
(d) 12.

3. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Technological Age.
(b) The Gilded Age.
(c) The Iron Age.
(d) The Separation Age.

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Alabama.

5. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1831.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

3. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

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

5. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

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