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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. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Mississippi.

2. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) The two men were half-brothers.
(b) The two men were cousins.
(c) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.
(d) The two men were brothers-in-law.

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 3,000.

4. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?
(a) A fakir.
(b) A nadir.
(c) A fadir.
(d) A fatwa.

5. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?

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

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

4. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

5. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?

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