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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. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?

2. In what city was a mock funeral for slavery held by the city's African American citizens?

3. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?

4. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?

5. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspect of the New Negro movement did Gates initially find problematic?

2. Who was Louis Agassiz?

3. How did Louis Agassiz's views change over time and why is that change significant?

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

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

6. To what source did proponents of monogenesis turn for justification for their theory?

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

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

9. What were the qualities associated with the Old Negro, according to Gates?

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

How is the theme of invisibility portrayed in Stony the Road? Examine Gates, Jr.'s treatment of and messages regarding invisibility throughout the work.

Essay Topic 3

How is the theme of injustice portrayed within Stony the Road? Examine Gates, Jr.'s treatment of and messages regarding injustice throughout the work.

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