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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?
(a) Indentured servitude.
(b) Sharecropping.
(c) Serfdom.
(d) Apprenticeship.

4. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?
(a) The New Negro Rebirth.
(b) The New Negro Manifesto.
(c) The New Negro
(d) The New Negro Renaissance.

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

6. 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.

7. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) William and Mary.

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

9. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The Underground Railroad.
(b) Black military service in the Civil War.
(c) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(d) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.

10. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) The two men were half-brothers.
(b) The two men were cousins.
(c) The two men were brothers-in-law.
(d) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.

11. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?
(a) Power and grace.
(b) Well and born.
(c) Best and brightest.
(d) Just and true.

12. Which comedian's great-great-grandfather served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War?
(a) Kevin Hart.
(b) Chris Rock.
(c) Steve Harvey.
(d) Eddie Murphy.

13. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?
(a) The mid-1800s.
(b) The mid-1700s.
(c) The early 1800s.
(d) The late 1800s.

14. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Edward A. Pollard.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

15. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?
(a) 30%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 10%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

2. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

3. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?

4. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

5. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?

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