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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 Fifteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1870.

2. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Maslow.
(b) Curie.
(c) Mendel.
(d) Darwin.

3. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1893.

4. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Alabama.

5. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1855.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?

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

3. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

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

5. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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