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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) The United States.
(b) Canada.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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) 10%.
(d) 20%.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

3. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

4. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

5. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?

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