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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1873.

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

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

4. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1855.

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

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

7. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?
(a) DNA Uncovered.
(b) African American Lives.
(c) Unchained Memories.
(d) Who You Are.

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

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

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

11. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Belgium.
(d) The United States.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

3. 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?

4. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

5. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?

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