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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. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1954.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?

2. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?

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

4. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan first earned a reputation as an authority on race in what decade?

5. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the significance of Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton.

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

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

4. What aspect of the New Negro movement did Gates initially find problematic?

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 one disease identified within Samuel Cartwright's 1851 publication entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" within De Bow's Review.

8. Describe the experience Gates had in college that served as the impetus for writing Stony the Road.

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

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

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