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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. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1925.

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

3. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?
(a) Tupelo.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Macon.

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

5. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?
(a) A fatwa.
(b) A nadir.
(c) A fadir.
(d) A fakir.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?

2. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

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

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

5. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

(see the answer key)

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