View a FREE sample

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) Indentured servitude.
(c) Apprenticeship.
(d) Sharecropping.

2. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1896.

3. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Race.
(b) Designed.
(c) Modern.
(d) Positive.

4. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
(a) Zora Neale Hurston.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

2. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?

3. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

4. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. To what source did proponents of monogenesis turn for justification for their theory?

4. How did Frederick Douglass respond to the explosion in popularity around so-called race theory?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,033 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample