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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, The Old Negro: Race, Science, Literature, and the Birth of Jim Crow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Brown.

2. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
(a) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.
(b) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(c) A set of stocks.
(d) A yoke for oxen.

3. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1834,
(b) 1853,
(c) 1845.
(d) 1870.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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)?

3. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?

4. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

5. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

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