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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Maslow.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Mendel.
(d) Curie.

2. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
(a) Frederick Hoffman.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

3. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) South Carolina.

4. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Harvard.

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

6. 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) Education.
(b) Skilled labor.
(c) Politics.
(d) Respect.

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

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

9. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?
(a) The notion that black people were a separate race from white people.
(b) The notion that every race had had its own creator.
(c) The notion that there was an inherent hierarchy within each racial group.
(d) The notion that each race of people on earth should have its own leader.

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

11. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?
(a) Trope.
(b) Superhero.
(c) Victory.
(d) Archtype.

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

13. 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 formation of the NAACP.
(c) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
(d) The Harlem Renaissance.

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

15. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

3. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?

4. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?

5. 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?

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