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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. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1866.

2. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Edward A. Pollard.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

3. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Curie.
(c) Maslow.
(d) Mendel.

4. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?
(a) 21 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 12 years.

5. What was the surname of the first African American to ever earn a PhD?
(a) Macon.
(b) Washington.
(c) Bowen.
(d) Gabbard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

2. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?

3. Who illustrated the piece of propaganda entitled "Amalgamation Waltz" (136)?

4. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?

5. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?

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