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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Macon.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Tupelo.

4. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Separation Age.
(b) The Gilded Age.
(c) The Iron Age.
(d) The Technological Age.

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

6. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 1,000.

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

8. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?
(a) Human skulls.
(b) Frozen organs.
(c) Surgical instruments.
(d) Fetal pigs.

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

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

11. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1834,
(b) 1870.
(c) 1853,
(d) 1845.

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

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

14. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1899.

15. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?
(a) Harvard.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Washington, D.C.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?

4. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?

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

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