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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?
(a) As a professor of anthropology.
(b) As a professor of natural history.
(c) As a professor of biology.
(d) As the dean of students.

2. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1861.

3. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1850.

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

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

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

7. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1880.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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?
(a) Respect.
(b) Education.
(c) Skilled labor.
(d) Politics.

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

15. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?
(a) A fakir.
(b) A fadir.
(c) A fatwa.
(d) A nadir.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

2. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?

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

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

5. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?

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