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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. Benjamin Franklin Perry claimed in an 1866 newspaper article that all Africans rightfully inhabited one of which two roles?
(a) Slave or savage.
(b) Slave or lecher.
(c) Rapist or dolt.
(d) Poet or murderer.

2. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?
(a) Valeria Luiselli.
(b) Jesmyn Ward.
(c) Michael Donkor.
(d) Charles R. Johnson.

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 1,000.

4. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?
(a) Just and true.
(b) Power and grace.
(c) Well and born.
(d) Best and brightest.

5. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1834,
(c) 1845.
(d) 1853,

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?

2. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?

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

4. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

5. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Louis Agassiz?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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