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

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

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

4. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1864.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?

2. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

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

4. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

5. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?

(see the answer key)

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