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

2. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?
(a) Various physical traits.
(b) Height.
(c) Regularity.
(d) Genealogy.

3. The postcard entitled "Evolution" from 1909 depicts what object turning into a black man?
(a) A watermelon.
(b) A shovel.
(c) A coffin.
(d) A monkey.

4. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?
(a) The East.
(b) The North.
(c) The South.
(d) The West.

5. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

2. In what year was the Separate Car Act passed by the Louisiana legislature?

3. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?

4. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?

5. 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?

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