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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Designed.
(b) Race.
(c) Modern.
(d) Positive.

2. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?
(a) The constant stream of negative propaganda.
(b) The effects of malnutrition.
(c) The innate differences of black people.
(d) The effects of slavery.

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?
(a) Folklore.
(b) Religion.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Science.

4. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1894.

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

6. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?
(a) A poem.
(b) A short story.
(c) A novel.
(d) A song.

7. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1892.

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

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

10. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1932.

11. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Educational.
(b) Medical.
(c) Agricultural.
(d) Legal.

12. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

13. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?
(a) Immanuel Kant.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Rene Descartes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

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

3. 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?

4. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?

5. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

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