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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. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?
(a) Brown.
(b) Yale.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Harvard.

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

3. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Belgium.
(c) The United States.
(d) Germany.

4. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1877.

5. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?
(a) Intermingling.
(b) Reclamation.
(c) Amalgamation.
(d) Abomination.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?

2. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

3. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

4. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?

5. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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