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

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

3. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

4. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1834,
(c) 1853,
(d) 1870.

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

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 does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

3. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?

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

5. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

(see the answer key)

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