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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The New Negro, Pages 185-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) Belgium.
(b) The United States.
(c) Germany.
(d) Denmark.

3. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?
(a) Guest speaker.
(b) Host.
(c) Writer.
(d) Producer.

4. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) Black military service in the Civil War.
(b) The Underground Railroad.
(c) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.
(d) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.

5. Nearly every work of art presented within the African American exhibit at the World's Fair featured its subject in what location?
(a) Outdoors.
(b) In a classroom.
(c) In a library.
(d) Indoors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Nat Turner lead a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia?

3. In what year did Frederick Douglass die?

4. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

5. Movements such as the New Negro Movement and the concept of the Talented Tenth are today brought together under which moniker?

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