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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, The Old Negro: Race, Science, Literature, and the Birth of Jim Crow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1866.

2. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1860s.
(c) The 1850s.
(d) The 1880s.

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

4. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

2. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?

3. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?

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

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

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