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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?

2. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?

3. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What two events led to the shift in Agassiz's worldview?

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

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

4. To what source did proponents of monogenesis turn for justification for their theory?

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

6. What aspect of the New Negro movement did Gates initially find problematic?

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

8. For what purpose does Gates draw a parallel between Reconstruction and a particular modern event?

9. What were the qualities associated with the Old Negro, according to Gates?

10. Discuss one disease identified within Samuel Cartwright's 1851 publication entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" within De Bow's Review.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the ultimate purpose behind Gates, Jr.’s inclusion of visual images within Stony the Road?

Essay Topic 2

How does Gates, Jr.’s use of the first and second person point of view serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how Gates, Jr.’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.

Essay Topic 3

How does Gates, Jr. use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.

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