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

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

3. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?
(a) Who You Are.
(b) Unchained Memories.
(c) DNA Uncovered.
(d) African American Lives.

4. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Scientific research.
(c) Eugenics.
(d) White supremacy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

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

4. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

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

(see the answer key)

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