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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 214-245 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) The United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Belgium.

2. Gates refers to the poem entitled "Heritage" as an example of what?
(a) Primitivism.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Echoism.
(d) Appropriation.

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

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

5. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1834.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?

2. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?

3. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

4. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

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

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