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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 was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1904.

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

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

4. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1867.

5. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) D.W. Griffith.
(b) Elia Kazan.
(c) Victor French.
(d) Cecil B. DeMille.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

2. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?

3. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

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

5. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

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