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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. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Voting rights for African Americans.
(c) Lynching.
(d) Slavery.

2. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?
(a) The early 1800s.
(b) The mid-1700s.
(c) The late 1800s.
(d) The mid-1800s.

3. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Vermont.
(d) North Carolina.

4. Who is said to have "launched himself" (191) into the vacant leadership role created by Frederick Douglass's death?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Ralph Ellison.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

2. The controversial editorial published by the Daily Record claimed that which element of the human condition is "color-blind" (143)?

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

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

5. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

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