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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 did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
2. Benjamin Franklin Perry was the provisional governor of what state in the mid-1800s?
3. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?
4. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?
5. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the origin of the title Stony the Road?
2. What aspect of the New Negro movement did Gates initially find problematic?
3. Explain the significance of Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton.
4. To what modern event does Gates connect the period of Redemption and why?
5. Describe the experience Gates had in college that served as the impetus for writing Stony the Road.
6. Discuss one disease identified within Samuel Cartwright's 1851 publication entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" within De Bow's Review.
7. What were the qualities associated with the Old Negro, according to Gates?
8. Which experiences of Abraham Lincoln's does Gates cite as causing his ideas about race to evolve?
9. What is the significance of the years 1865 through 1877?
10. How did the institution of slavery make contact with the western part of North America?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What ultimate message is Gates, Jr. sending about the mythical qualities of the United States?
Essay Topic 2
Examine how Gates, Jr. goes about connecting personal experience with the arguments put forth within Stony the Road. How does Gates, Jr. accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?
Essay Topic 3
Read a lengthy interview with Gates, Jr.. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Gates, Jr.’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of Stony the Road.
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