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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. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1899.

2. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?
(a) Best and brightest.
(b) Just and true.
(c) Power and grace.
(d) Well and born.

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

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

5. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?
(a) Outdoors.
(b) In a library.
(c) In a classroom.
(d) Indoors.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

2. What percentage of the African American population was free by 1860?

3. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

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

5. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?

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