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

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

4. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?
(a) Harvard.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Colorado.

5. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1893.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

2. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

3. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

4. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

5. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What two events led to the shift in Agassiz's worldview?

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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