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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1878.
(d) 1868.

2. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Race.
(b) Designed.
(c) Positive.
(d) Modern.

3. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1893.

4. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 21 years.
(d) 8 years.

5. 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 Technological Age.
(b) The Gilded Age.
(c) The Separation Age.
(d) The Iron Age.

6. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) Jefferson Davis.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Edward A. Pollard.

7. 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 Renaissance.
(d) The New Negro Rebirth.

8. 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 West.
(d) The South.

9. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Rapist or dolt.
(b) Poet or murderer.
(c) Slave or lecher.
(d) Slave or savage.

10. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Voting rights for African Americans.
(d) Lynching.

11. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Medical.
(b) Educational.
(c) Legal.
(d) Agricultural.

12. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Religion.
(b) Folklore.
(c) Science.
(d) Astrology.

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

14. 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 popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(d) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?

5. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?

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