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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) Charles R. Johnson.
(b) Valeria Luiselli.
(c) Michael Donkor.
(d) Jesmyn Ward.

2. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1888.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?

3. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

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

5. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?

(see the answer key)

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