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

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

4. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1843.

5. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?

2. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

3. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

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

5. 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?

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