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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. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?
(a) Chris Rock.
(b) Eddie Murphy.
(c) Kevin Hart.
(d) Steve Harvey.

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

3. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1932.

4. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?
(a) A short story.
(b) A song.
(c) A poem.
(d) A novel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

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

3. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

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

5. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

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