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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

5. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the significance of Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Gates, Jr. employ the use or rejection of fallacy within Stony the Road and how does the inclusion of fallacy help Gates, Jr. to prove particular points made within the text?

Essay Topic 2

What is the ultimate purpose behind Gates, Jr.’s inclusion of visual images within Stony the Road?

Essay Topic 3

What ultimate message is Gates, Jr. sending about the mythical qualities of the United States?

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