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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(c) A yoke for oxen.
(d) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?
(a) The North.
(b) The South.
(c) The West.
(d) The East.

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

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

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

12. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1833.

13. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?

3. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

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

5. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

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