1. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?
(a) As a professor of biology.
(b) As a professor of anthropology.
(c) As a professor of natural history.
(d) As the dean of students.

2. Besides including a photograph of lynched men, what other element does the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (136) include?
(a) A manifesto.
(b) A poem.
(c) An illustration.
(d) A timeline.

3. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1894.

4. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Abomination.
(b) Reclamation.
(c) Amalgamation.
(d) Intermingling.

5. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1901.

Short Answer Questions

1. W.E.B. Du Bois expressed in 1960 that he and his colleagues at Harvard in the 1920s had viewed themselves as "combatants" (199) in a war of what kind?

2. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?

3. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?

4. Who led a revolt among the slaves in Charleson, South Carolina in 1822?

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

(see the answer key)

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