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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. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
(a) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.
(b) A yoke for oxen.
(c) A set of stocks.
(d) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.

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

3. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Curie.
(c) Maslow.
(d) Mendel.

4. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1866.

5. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?
(a) The New Negro Renaissance.
(b) The New Negro
(c) The New Negro Rebirth.
(d) The New Negro Manifesto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?

2. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?

3. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?

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

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

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