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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Part One, Antislavery/Antislave.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Medical.
(b) Educational.
(c) Legal.
(d) Agricultural.

3. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1878.
(d) 1888.

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

5. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1892.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

2. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

3. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?

4. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?

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

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