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

2. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?
(a) Brown.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Cornell.

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

4. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1954.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?

2. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?

4. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

5. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?

(see the answer key)

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