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

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

3. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1932.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?

2. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?

3. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?

4. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

5. Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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