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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" depicted how many dead men killed in a lynching?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

2. In what year was "Negro History Week" inaugurated by Carter G. Woodson?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1912.

3. By what decade had advertising of products taken on the second goal of denigrating African Americans?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1840s.
(d) The 1910s.

4. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Texas.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Georgia.

5. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?
(a) 36.
(b) 12.
(c) 50.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

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

3. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

4. What term does Gates use to refer to the genre of American popular culture that sought to portray African Americans as the opposite of "Truth and Beauty, the Good and the Civilized" (126)?

5. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

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