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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 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)?
(a) Modern.
(b) Positive.
(c) Designed.
(d) Race.

2. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1942.

3. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?
(a) Voting rights for African Americans.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Miscegenation.
(d) Lynching.

4. 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.

5. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) The University of Illinois.
(d) The University of Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?

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

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

4. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?

5. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

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