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

2. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?
(a) 1813.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1789.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

4. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

5. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what source did proponents of monogenesis turn for justification for their theory?

2. How does Gates go about interweaving the two themes of healing and justice?

3. Describe the monogenecists' two different explanations for the dark color of African Americans' skin.

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

5. What is the origin of the title Stony the Road?

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

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

8. Which experiences of Abraham Lincoln's does Gates cite as causing his ideas about race to evolve?

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

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

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