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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. Rudolph Matas reached how many conclusions within his work entitled The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro?
2. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?
3. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
4. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?
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. Describe the experience Gates had in college that served as the impetus for writing Stony the Road.
2. To what modern event does Gates connect the period of Redemption and why?
3. Discuss one disease identified within Samuel Cartwright's 1851 publication entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" within De Bow's Review.
4. Explain the significance of Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton.
5. Discuss the cause of a particular disease Cartwright defined and his suggested treatment.
6. What were the qualities associated with the Old Negro, according to Gates?
7. How does Gates go about interweaving the two themes of healing and justice?
8. Describe the monogenecists' two different explanations for the dark color of African Americans' skin.
9. Discuss a time when Gates used of the second person point of view and the effect this use has on the reader.
10. To what source did proponents of monogenesis turn for justification for their theory?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How are the themes of truth and deception depicted within Gates, Jr.’s book Stony the Road?
Essay Topic 2
Examine Gates, Jr.’s use of characterization methods to portray real people. What effect do these characterization methods have on the work's inherent themes and messages?
Essay Topic 3
How does Gates, Jr.’s use of the first and second person point of view serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how Gates, Jr.’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
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