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

2. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?
(a) The Harlem Renaissance.
(b) The formation of the NAACP.
(c) The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.
(d) The Plessy vs. Ferguson decision.

3. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1871.

4. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Canada.
(d) The United States.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

3. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the significance of the years 1865 through 1877?

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

9. Which amendments to the United States Constitution forever changed the status of African Americans?

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

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