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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1925.

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

4. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?
(a) 18.
(b) 41.
(c) 11.
(d) 27.

5. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?
(a) The notion that there was an inherent hierarchy within each racial group.
(b) The notion that each race of people on earth should have its own leader.
(c) The notion that black people were a separate race from white people.
(d) The notion that every race had had its own creator.

6. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?
(a) 22.
(b) 3.
(c) 11.
(d) 43.

7. 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) 5%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 30%.

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

9. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?
(a) Producer.
(b) Host.
(c) Writer.
(d) Guest speaker.

10. At what university did W.E.B. Du Bois secure a temporary appointment while writing The Philadelphia Negro?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) The University of Pennsylvania.

11. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1954.

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

13. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Alabama.

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

15. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Abomination.
(b) Reclamation.
(c) Intermingling.
(d) Amalgamation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

2. 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)?

3. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

4. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

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

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