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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1899.

3. Gates refers to "the New Negro as Black America's first" (3) what?
(a) Trope.
(b) Victory.
(c) Superhero.
(d) Archtype.

4. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
(a) A set of stocks.
(b) A yoke for oxen.
(c) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(d) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.

5. 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 biology.
(c) As a professor of natural history.
(d) As the dean of students.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?
(a) Regularity.
(b) Various physical traits.
(c) Genealogy.
(d) Height.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?

2. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?

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

4. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?

5. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?

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