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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Part One, Antislavery/Antislave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1892.

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

3. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Jesmyn Ward.
(b) Valeria Luiselli.
(c) Michael Donkor.
(d) Charles R. Johnson.

4. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1853,
(b) 1870.
(c) 1834,
(d) 1845.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

3. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?

4. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?

5. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

(see the answer key)

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