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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, The Old Negro: Race, Science, Literature, and the Birth of Jim Crow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?
(a) The notion that each race of people on earth should have its own leader.
(b) The notion that black people were a separate race from white people.
(c) The notion that every race had had its own creator.
(d) The notion that there was an inherent hierarchy within each racial group.

2. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Michael Donkor.
(b) Valeria Luiselli.
(c) Charles R. Johnson.
(d) Jesmyn Ward.

3. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1865.

4. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1855.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

2. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

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

4. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?

5. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?

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