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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. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Charles R. Johnson.
(b) Jesmyn Ward.
(c) Valeria Luiselli.
(d) Michael Donkor.

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

3. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Colorado.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Washington, D.C.

4. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) Victor French.
(c) Cecil B. DeMille.
(d) D.W. Griffith.

5. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?
(a) Sharecropping.
(b) Apprenticeship.
(c) Indentured servitude.
(d) Serfdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

2. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

3. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?

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

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

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