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

2. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) Cecil B. DeMille.
(c) Victor French.
(d) D.W. Griffith.

3. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?
(a) Producer.
(b) Host.
(c) Writer.
(d) Guest speaker.

4. 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?
(a) 30%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 5%.

5. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Alfalfa.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

2. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?

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

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

5. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

(see the answer key)

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