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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. For how many years has Gates considered Harvard to be his "home" (76)?

2. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

3. Which institution of higher learning hired the polygenesis proponent named Louis Agassiz in 1846?

4. In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Frederick Douglass respond to the explosion in popularity around so-called race theory?

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

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

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

9. How did the institution of slavery make contact with the western part of North America?

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

In what way does Gates, Jr. go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance the text’s arguments?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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