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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Medical.
(c) Educational.
(d) Legal.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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 novel.
(c) A short story.
(d) A poem.

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

11. 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.

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

13. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Separation Age.
(b) The Technological Age.
(c) The Iron Age.
(d) The Gilded Age.

14. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 21 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 5 years.

15. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?
(a) Brown.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

3. Charles Carroll's book The Negro, a Beast sought to prove the destructive nature of what practice?

4. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?

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

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