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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. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?
(a) 18.
(b) 41.
(c) 11.
(d) 27.

2. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?
(a) The late 1800s.
(b) The early 1800s.
(c) The mid-1800s.
(d) The mid-1700s.

3. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1888.

4. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?
(a) The popularity of the film The Birth of a Nation.
(b) The Underground Railroad.
(c) Black military service in the Civil War.
(d) The election of black men to the U.S. Senate.

5. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?
(a) Height.
(b) Genealogy.
(c) Various physical traits.
(d) Regularity.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

2. What location is cited as having been the "center of eugenics thought in the United States" (76)?

3. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

4. From what country did the coiner of the term eugenics hail?

5. In what year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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