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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. In what year was the term eugenics coined by Francis Galton?
(a) 1834.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1883.

2. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1854.

3. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?
(a) The effects of slavery.
(b) The effects of malnutrition.
(c) The constant stream of negative propaganda.
(d) The innate differences of black people.

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

5. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Medical.
(c) Legal.
(d) Educational.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

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

4. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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