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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. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Alfalfa.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Corn.

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

3. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?
(a) Frozen organs.
(b) Human skulls.
(c) Surgical instruments.
(d) Fetal pigs.

4. With what crime were lynchings always associated by the murderers carrying out the sentence?
(a) Rape.
(b) Insubordination.
(c) Theft.
(d) Murder.

5. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Frederick Hoffman.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?

2. According to supporters of the New Negro movement, how many New Negros existed in the United States in 1920?

3. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

4. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?

5. Movements such as the New Negro Movement and the concept of the Talented Tenth are today brought together under which moniker?

(see the answer key)

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