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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. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(b) Black military service in the Civil War.
(c) The Underground Railroad.
(d) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.

2. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1868.

3. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) Germany.
(b) Canada.
(c) The United States.
(d) England.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?

3. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

4. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?

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

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