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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Astrology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Folklore.
(d) Science.

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

4. 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 Gilded Age.
(c) The Technological Age.
(d) The Iron Age.

5. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1850.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

2. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?

3. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?

4. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?

5. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the institution of slavery make contact with the western part of North America?

2. What were the qualities associated with the Old Negro, according to Gates?

3. How did Louis Agassiz's views change over time and why is that change significant?

4. In Part Two: The Old Negro, Gates explores the way in which the ideology of white supremacy was transmitted using which four distinct discourses?

5. What two events led to the shift in Agassiz's worldview?

6. To what modern event does Gates connect the period of Redemption and why?

7. For what purpose does Gates draw a parallel between Reconstruction and a particular modern event?

8. Discuss the cause of a particular disease Cartwright defined and his suggested treatment.

9. In what way did Charles Carroll equate evolution with atheism?

10. What two events does Gate use in order to mark the beginning and climax of the Redemption era?

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