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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. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?

2. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?

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

4. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?

5. In what year did the Civil War begin in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In Part Two: The Old Negro, Gates explores the way in which the ideology of white supremacy was transmitted using which four distinct discourses?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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 is the theme of hypocrisy treated within Gates, Jr.’s text and with which of the text’s messages does the theme closely connect?

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