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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. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?

2. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?

3. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?

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

5. Which writer's extreme optimism after Barack Obama's election is cited by Gates as an example?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the monogenecists' two different explanations for the dark color of African Americans' skin.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Gates, Jr.'s message regarding a particular shift in worldview that needs to occur within the minds of members of a particular group of people and why?

Essay Topic 2

In what way does Gates, Jr. utilize irony within the text? Discuss at least three uses of irony within Stony the Road and explore each instance's connection to larger themes contained within the piece.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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