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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. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1911.

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

3. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1861.

4. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1880s.
(d) The 1860s.

5. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Alabama.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) West Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

3. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

4. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

5. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

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