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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Legal.
(b) Educational.
(c) Agricultural.
(d) Medical.

2. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?
(a) Science.
(b) Folklore.
(c) Religion.
(d) Mathematics.

3. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) Canada.
(b) The United States.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

4. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?
(a) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.
(b) The Harlem Renaissance.
(c) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
(d) The formation of the NAACP.

5. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?
(a) Unchained Memories.
(b) DNA Uncovered.
(c) Who You Are.
(d) African American Lives.

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

7. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1878.
(d) 1900.

8. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Separation Age.
(b) The Iron Age.
(c) The Gilded Age.
(d) The Technological Age.

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

10. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Poet or murderer.
(b) Slave or lecher.
(c) Rapist or dolt.
(d) Slave or savage.

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

12. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) The two men were brothers-in-law.
(b) The two men were half-brothers.
(c) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.
(d) The two men were cousins.

13. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
(a) A set of stocks.
(b) A yoke for oxen.
(c) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.
(d) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.

14. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Charles R. Johnson.
(b) Michael Donkor.
(c) Valeria Luiselli.
(d) Jesmyn Ward.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?

2. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?

3. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?

4. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

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

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