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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
(a) Ralph Ellison.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Frederick Hoffman.

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

4. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?
(a) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.
(b) The Harlem Renaissance.
(c) The formation of the NAACP.
(d) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.

5. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1893.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?

2. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

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

4. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?

5. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the monogenecists' two different explanations for the dark color of African Americans' skin.

2. In Part Two: The Old Negro, Gates explores the way in which the ideology of white supremacy was transmitted using which four distinct discourses?

3. To what modern event does Gates connect the period of Redemption and why?

4. In what way did Charles Carroll equate evolution with atheism?

5. What is the significance of the years 1865 through 1877?

6. Which experiences of Abraham Lincoln's does Gates cite as causing his ideas about race to evolve?

7. Discuss a time when Gates used of the second person point of view and the effect this use has on the reader.

8. What two events does Gate use in order to mark the beginning and climax of the Redemption era?

9. How did the institution of slavery make contact with the western part of North America?

10. How did Frederick Douglass respond to the explosion in popularity around so-called race theory?

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