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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. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Edward A. Pollard.

2. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Medical.
(b) Educational.
(c) Legal.
(d) Agricultural.

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

4. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?
(a) As the dean of students.
(b) As a professor of biology.
(c) As a professor of natural history.
(d) As a professor of anthropology.

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Astrology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Folklore.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

2. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?

3. 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?

4. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?

5. 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)?

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