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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.
(b) The two men were cousins.
(c) The two men were half-brothers.
(d) The two men were brothers-in-law.

2. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 4,000.

3. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Corn.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Alfalfa.
(d) Cotton.

4. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1813.

5. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?
(a) The New Negro Manifesto.
(b) The New Negro
(c) The New Negro Rebirth.
(d) The New Negro Renaissance.

6. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?
(a) Just and true.
(b) Best and brightest.
(c) Power and grace.
(d) Well and born.

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

8. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?
(a) 11.
(b) 41.
(c) 18.
(d) 27.

9. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Separation Age.
(b) The Iron Age.
(c) The Gilded Age.
(d) The Technological Age.

10. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?
(a) Immanuel Kant.
(b) Rene Descartes.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Charles Darwin.

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

12. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?
(a) 22.
(b) 11.
(c) 3.
(d) 43.

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

14. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1932.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

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

3. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?

5. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?

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