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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1861.

2. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?
(a) The mid-1700s.
(b) The mid-1800s.
(c) The late 1800s.
(d) The early 1800s.

3. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?
(a) Respect.
(b) Skilled labor.
(c) Education.
(d) Politics.

4. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1833.

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

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

7. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?
(a) William and Mary.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

8. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Victor French.
(b) D.W. Griffith.
(c) Cecil B. DeMille.
(d) Elia Kazan.

9. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?
(a) 27.
(b) 18.
(c) 41.
(d) 11.

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

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

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

13. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?
(a) Chris Rock.
(b) Kevin Hart.
(c) Eddie Murphy.
(d) Steve Harvey.

14. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1854.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?

3. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

4. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

5. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?

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