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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 185-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of art was featured in the World's Fair exhibit depicting African Americans?
(a) Etching.
(b) Painting.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Photography.

2. Jim Crow segregation was institutionalized in what decade?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1850s.
(c) The 1870s.
(d) The 1920s.

3. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?
(a) White supremacy.
(b) Miscegenation.
(c) Eugenics.
(d) Scientific research.

4. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1877.

5. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?
(a) The constant stream of negative propaganda.
(b) The effects of slavery.
(c) The innate differences of black people.
(d) The effects of malnutrition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the surname of the first African American to ever earn a PhD?

2. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?

3. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?

4. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

5. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?

(see the answer key)

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