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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1880.

2. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1888.

3. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?
(a) Medical and legal.
(b) Representational and violent.
(c) Logical and emotional.
(d) Legal and representational.

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

5. What emotion did works of Sambo art seek to inspire in their audiences?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Awe.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?

2. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

3. In what country did advertising images of black people acknowledge the possibility of white women being attracted to black men?

4. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?

5. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

(see the answer key)

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