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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. The concept of the New Negro was used by a subgroup of African Americans between which two years?
(a) 1894 and 1925.
(b) 1894 and 1909.
(c) 1901 and 1910.
(d) 1872 and 1910.

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

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 3,000.

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

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Religion.
(b) Science.
(c) Astrology.
(d) Folklore.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

2. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?

3. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?

4. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?

5. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?

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