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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. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?
(a) Serfdom.
(b) Sharecropping.
(c) Indentured servitude.
(d) Apprenticeship.

2. Francis Galton was related to Charles Darwin in what way?
(a) The two men were brothers-in-law.
(b) Darwin was Galton's great-uncle.
(c) The two men were half-brothers.
(d) The two men were cousins.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?

2. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?

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

4. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

5. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Discuss a time when Gates used of the second person point of view and the effect this use has on the reader.

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

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

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

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

9. What is the origin of the title Stony the Road?

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

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