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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gates asserts that the two-pronged attack strategies used by whites during Redemption were of what type?
(a) Legal and representational.
(b) Medical and legal.
(c) Logical and emotional.
(d) Representational and violent.

2. For how many years did the period of Reconstruction last?
(a) 12.
(b) 24.
(c) 50.
(d) 36.

3. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Poet or murderer.
(b) Rapist or dolt.
(c) Slave or lecher.
(d) Slave or savage.

4. What is the common trait of all authors contained within the epigraph section of Part Three: Framing Blackness?
(a) They all lived in the 19th century.
(b) They are experts in visual rhetoric.
(c) They are African American.
(d) They are female.

5. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Science.
(b) Folklore.
(c) Religion.
(d) Astrology.

Short Answer Questions

1. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

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. In what year was the NAACP founded?

5. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

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