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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. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Rene Descartes.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Immanuel Kant.

2. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?
(a) 5%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 30%.

3. Gates describes Booker T. Washington's speech entitled "Atlanta Compromise" (192) by using which adjective?
(a) Revolutionary.
(b) Famous.
(c) Unfortunate.
(d) Infamous.

4. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?
(a) A fakir.
(b) A fadir.
(c) A fatwa.
(d) A nadir.

5. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?

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

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

4. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

5. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

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