Stony the Road Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Stony the Road Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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

2. Gates asserts that the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation" (137) had been a work of what?
(a) Satire.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Parody.
(d) Fiction.

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

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

5. Which author does Gate name as having encountered fixed notions about Africa when attending college in the United States?
(a) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(b) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
(c) Chinua Achebe.
(d) Toni Morrison.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

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

3. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?

4. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?

5. In what state was the photograph taken that was transformed into the postcard entitled "The Dogwood Tree" (134)?

(see the answer key)

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